Whether for stage, screen, or page, Cassie creates work that is playful, experimental, and rooted in a love for DIY spectacle.

Cassie is currently:

• Developing her original musical, The Mountain Digby, which was a finalist for the National Alliance of Musical Theatre Festival (2023) and the Steller Emerging Creator in Theater Award (2021).

• Remounting her original play Widdle Women, which debuted to sold-out audiences at The Elysian Theater’s “Forget About the Spaghetti” Festival (2024).

• Celebrating the release of Boy Band in a Haunted Hotel—a film she directed in collaboration with a group of artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities—set to premiere at festivals later this year.

• Putting the finishing post-production touches on her newest short film, Aloneness, which she directed and co-wrote with Ryan Asher.

Recent career highlights include directing new musicals (Shipping and Fanny) at The Elysian Theater, filming the opening sequence for Dylan Mulvaney’s podcast The Dylan Hour (iHeartMedia, Lemonada) and serving as Acting Coach on over 50 episodes of Nickelodeon television (Side Hustle, The Thundermans Return, That Girl Lay Lay, Danger Force, Aaron & Erin). In 2024, Cassie spent a week at Mount St. Helens with the Association of Women Geoscientists -learning about volcanoes, recording audio, and struggling to keep up with women twice her age on hikes. The resulting docu-podcast, The Blast Zone, was piloted with NPR and Atlas Obscura, and is currently in development.

Before moving to Los Angeles, Cassie was a director for The Second City’s National Touring Company, an improv and theater teacher, a web series creator, and the founder of a DIY comedy club she ran out of the laundry room/unfinished basement of a duplex in Chicago. She studied Theater Directing at Columbia College Chicago and took objectively way too many comedy classes at The Second City, iO, and Annoyance Theaters. Thankfully, she still uses those skills today.

As a teacher, Cassie has worked with students ages 4 to 80, beginners, pros, and a few businesspeople who were tricked into taking improv under the guise of “team building.” She’s passionate about teaching adults how to play, and children how to care for themselves and each other.

In her free time, Cassie volunteers as a Fire Lookout in the Angeles National Forest alongside her husband, Anthony. Her family nickname is “Walleye Queen,” which is a fishing joke—in case you had any doubts about just how Midwestern she is.