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I write character based plays that dig deep and investigate the things inside us that either keep us from moving forward, or keep us fighting for survival. As people we are experts at living our lives on the surface without the outside world knowing what is burning under the skin. It is that struggle between the inner and outer you, those secrets and fears that inspire me. I want to know when and what makes us finally break. When and what finally makes us push back. Even though my plays deal with some hard stuff, I always find a way to add some whimsy, magic, and humor into the mix. I’m not interested in the solution, in the perfect world, but in the glimmers of hope that surface after the storm.
BIography
Cassie M. Seinuk is a Jewish Cuban playwright and AEA stage manager with a BA at Brandeis University with High Honors in Theatre Arts and Creative Writing, and her MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University.
Cassie's full-length play FROM THE DEEP is the 2013 second place recipient of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Latinidad Playwrights Award, and the 2014 winner of the Pestalozzi New Play Prize at the Firehouse Center for the Arts New Work Festival. Seinuk was a 2014 Kennedy Center Fellow and Playwright Observer at The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and is a recipient of the Boston University Jewish Cultural Endowment grant.
Her short play Just Like Tetraphobia was produced at the Boston Theater Marathon. Seinuk's 10-minute Occupy Hallmark received its second production July 2013 as a Final 30 at the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival. Her one-act play The Muse was a semi-finalist at the OOB in 2011, a semi-finalist in Manhattan Rep's One Act Competition in 2012, and a 2013 semi-finalist at The Warner Theatre Company's Playwrights Festival. Additional productions of Seinuk's short work: Robin's Nest, and Even As I Go (SWAN Day Boston); Just Like Tetraphobia (Our Voices Festival); February First is an Annual Thing (Salem Theatre); Pendulum (CoLab Theatre), Playing Checkers (Heart and Dagger Theatre); Just Like Tetraphobia (Happy Medium Theatre); Pretty Fucking Perfect, Gotcha Again!, Even As I Go, Kicking It!, Just Like Tetraphobia, Occupy Hallmark, and Triumphs of The Heart Sphere (Nylon Fusion Collective); Pendulum, and Out Like A Lamb (Paper Sprout Productions). Her full-length, Runner: The Novel The Play, received a workshop at Brandeis University (FreePlay Theatre), a staged reading in Boston (Holland Productions), and a workshop in Chicago August 2012 (Echoes Theatre). Her full-length Meet Me In The Bathroom two readings in Boston.
Seinuk is the co-founder of Interim Writers, a playwrights' collective, and is a member of their Accomplice Writers' Group. Cassie is a member of Boston Public Works, and The Dramatist's Guild.
Cassie's full-length play FROM THE DEEP is the 2013 second place recipient of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Latinidad Playwrights Award, and the 2014 winner of the Pestalozzi New Play Prize at the Firehouse Center for the Arts New Work Festival. Seinuk was a 2014 Kennedy Center Fellow and Playwright Observer at The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and is a recipient of the Boston University Jewish Cultural Endowment grant.
Her short play Just Like Tetraphobia was produced at the Boston Theater Marathon. Seinuk's 10-minute Occupy Hallmark received its second production July 2013 as a Final 30 at the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival. Her one-act play The Muse was a semi-finalist at the OOB in 2011, a semi-finalist in Manhattan Rep's One Act Competition in 2012, and a 2013 semi-finalist at The Warner Theatre Company's Playwrights Festival. Additional productions of Seinuk's short work: Robin's Nest, and Even As I Go (SWAN Day Boston); Just Like Tetraphobia (Our Voices Festival); February First is an Annual Thing (Salem Theatre); Pendulum (CoLab Theatre), Playing Checkers (Heart and Dagger Theatre); Just Like Tetraphobia (Happy Medium Theatre); Pretty Fucking Perfect, Gotcha Again!, Even As I Go, Kicking It!, Just Like Tetraphobia, Occupy Hallmark, and Triumphs of The Heart Sphere (Nylon Fusion Collective); Pendulum, and Out Like A Lamb (Paper Sprout Productions). Her full-length, Runner: The Novel The Play, received a workshop at Brandeis University (FreePlay Theatre), a staged reading in Boston (Holland Productions), and a workshop in Chicago August 2012 (Echoes Theatre). Her full-length Meet Me In The Bathroom two readings in Boston.
Seinuk is the co-founder of Interim Writers, a playwrights' collective, and is a member of their Accomplice Writers' Group. Cassie is a member of Boston Public Works, and The Dramatist's Guild.
