Eric Ras­mussen is an actor, direc­tor, sto­ry­teller and devised the­ater mak­er. He has appeared in the US pre­miers of plays by Jean-Claude van Ital­lie, Hanoch Levin and Yoko Ono. His auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal work has been per­formed at Den­nis­ton Hill, The Wilde Project, Sec­ond Stage The­ater and the 92nd Street Y. His recent schol­ar­ship, Queer­itage: LGBTQ Fam­i­ly Lega­cy in Amer­i­can Dra­mat­ic Nar­ra­tives, was award­ed the Dean’s Prize for Out­stand­ing A.L.M. The­sis at Har­vard Exten­sion School. He lives in Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts and is writ­ing a mem­oir about grow­ing up in an uncon­ven­tion­al Jew­ish fam­i­ly on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.