Artistic Statement
I cling to the ribcage of my characters, grasping at the human need to fight for survival. I investigate their inner demons, the vices and addictions. I call out to their brothers, best friends, and worst enemies, for perhaps they have the key. I explore my character’s dreams and nightmares, searching for the sparks of hope and stirs of terror. My plays seek to make connections across time and space, our past and our present, as we search for the collective consciousness uniting us all. My plays are wild, yet cultivated, full of epic theater magic wrapped in the intimacy of close-knit ensembles.
Biography
Cassie M. Seinuk is a queer Jewish Cuban playwright, stage manager, and educator in Boston, MA.
Seinuk received a BA in Theatre Arts and Creative Writing at Brandeis University, an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen at Lesley University, and received additional training at the Gary Garrison Kennedy Center Summer Playwright’s Intensive.
Her play From the Deep has won multiple awards including The Pestalozzi New Play Prize, the Latinx Playwrights Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, was a recipient of the Boston University Jewish Culture Endowment, and it appeared on the Kilroys’ Honorable Mention List (2015). The premiere production of From the Deep received IRNE Award nominations and was a “Favorite” at the 2016 FringeNYC Festival. Her play Eyes Shut. Door Open. (ESDO) was a recipient of a grant from the Bob Jolly Charitable Fund, won the 2016 OnStage Critics Award for an Outstanding New Work. Full-length play Dream House was developed at New Repertory Theatre as part of Next Voices Fellows and was a Semi-Finalist for the 2016 National Playwrights Conference at The O’Neill. Dream House received further development at The Nora Theatre Company in 2018, and it was the play that made Seinuk a 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow Finalist. Una Me Da Leche, a trilingual play, was a 2017 Semi-Finalist for The O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference, received Honorable Mention for the Granite State Playwright’s Workshop, and was presented at the BCA’s She Said… Festival in 2019. Seinuk’s contemporary Greek Tragdey, Meet Me in the Bathroom has been developed by The Nora Theatre Company and Boston Conservatory at Berklee Contemporary Theatre Program. It received a staged reading at Kidstock! Seinuk won the 2015 Gary Garrison Ten Minute Play Award at the Kennedy Center in 2015 for her play Occupy Hallmark; which has now been produced nationally and internationally.
Seinuk is a member of The Dramatist Guild and Actors’ Equity Association. Seinuk serves as adjunct faculty at Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing, and is part-time faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music, where she teaches Theatre Production/design, Stage Management, and Theatre Literature courses.
Seinuk received a BA in Theatre Arts and Creative Writing at Brandeis University, an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen at Lesley University, and received additional training at the Gary Garrison Kennedy Center Summer Playwright’s Intensive.
Her play From the Deep has won multiple awards including The Pestalozzi New Play Prize, the Latinx Playwrights Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, was a recipient of the Boston University Jewish Culture Endowment, and it appeared on the Kilroys’ Honorable Mention List (2015). The premiere production of From the Deep received IRNE Award nominations and was a “Favorite” at the 2016 FringeNYC Festival. Her play Eyes Shut. Door Open. (ESDO) was a recipient of a grant from the Bob Jolly Charitable Fund, won the 2016 OnStage Critics Award for an Outstanding New Work. Full-length play Dream House was developed at New Repertory Theatre as part of Next Voices Fellows and was a Semi-Finalist for the 2016 National Playwrights Conference at The O’Neill. Dream House received further development at The Nora Theatre Company in 2018, and it was the play that made Seinuk a 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow Finalist. Una Me Da Leche, a trilingual play, was a 2017 Semi-Finalist for The O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference, received Honorable Mention for the Granite State Playwright’s Workshop, and was presented at the BCA’s She Said… Festival in 2019. Seinuk’s contemporary Greek Tragdey, Meet Me in the Bathroom has been developed by The Nora Theatre Company and Boston Conservatory at Berklee Contemporary Theatre Program. It received a staged reading at Kidstock! Seinuk won the 2015 Gary Garrison Ten Minute Play Award at the Kennedy Center in 2015 for her play Occupy Hallmark; which has now been produced nationally and internationally.
Seinuk is a member of The Dramatist Guild and Actors’ Equity Association. Seinuk serves as adjunct faculty at Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing, and is part-time faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music, where she teaches Theatre Production/design, Stage Management, and Theatre Literature courses.
