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I strive to write evocative theatrical and personal moments that stay with people for days, weeks, and even months afterwards. A part of this mission of mine is rooted in my drive to write plays that navigate the existential and introspective, to explore the dark and often the tragic. My plays are set in a heightened reality, where the rules of our everyday world don’t always apply, and while it’s different for each play, it’s these aching questions about who we are, how we survive, and what happens when we lose a part or all of ourselves in the process that pulls me to the keys of my laptop.
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.
Answers to some questions...
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Where did I Come From?
I am a Cuban American Jew, or “Jewbana” as I like to call myself, from North Woodmere, Long Island. It’s a little town that has only recently made it onto the maps. They knocked down our post office and built an old age home, and we don’t have our own zip code, but it’s home. I currently live in Somerville, MA, and since I found my voice as a playwright while living in Boston, I feel as though I’m a Boston Playwright. Five Words to Describe Me and my Writing: Bold, Meta, Provocative, Unique, and Persistent. (in 2011) Now I’d say, “Fearless, Provocative, Quirky, Full-of-Heart, and as always Persistent.” One Phrase to Describe My Favorite Characters: Intense Angsty Young Adults What Has Influenced My Writing? I am a big fan of Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster, and J.M. Barrie -those are some of my biggest literary influences. I’m a big fan of awkward silences and situations, especially if you throw in some overlapping lines and courageous language. But when it all boils down to it, my late grandfather Ysrael A. Seinuk, a paramount in the engineering world, is the man I credit my drive and devotion. He always instilled in me the matra, “from strength to strength,” and I dedicate all of my writing to him. Maybe great engineers and skyscrapers don’t usually inspire playwrights, but every time I return to New York and see the skyline of his buildings I feel like my potential is limitless. Check out the complete 2011 Sam French interview here and the 2013 here. |
This is a picture of me with my amazing "Jewban" (Jewish Cuban) Family celebrating my sister's wedding. My Family has always been so supportive and I thank them for being so loud and crazy!
my Papi (Dad) who has always been by my side and my #1 fan
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