Rasmussen is a California based multi-disciplinary theater and community artist. She has worked professionally in the Bay Area since 2005, working both as a producer for regional theater and as a freelance director in local independent theaters such as Custom Made Theatre Company, Town Hall Theatre, and Diablo Actor’s ensemble. In 2007, her focus moved from creating and producing in traditional theatrical formats and began making work that would appeal to her peers in the Millennial Generation and consumers of popular culture. Rasmussen began her artistic education as a dancer at the age of 5. From a young age she expressed herself through dance, theatrical performance, and writing as a way of coping with complicated family dynamics, adolescence and pain. At the root of her work, Rasmussen grapples with loss stemming from losing three friends at the age of 17, the closest of which took his own life. Through this experience, she began to explore the power of choice and the effect that one person’s choices have on other people. Rasmussen’s work seeks to find answers to: how can one adjust after experiencing loss? What change does loss cause within a person? Are those changes irreversible? Can you choose not to change as a result? Are we masters of our own fate or is there a larger force driving the circumstances of our lives?