About Me
headshots by Rachel Kurnos
BIO
Cassie Seinuk’s recent successes include the title of Best Play at SWAN Day March Madness Festival in Boston for her ten-minute play Robin’s Nest. Robin’s Nest will be appearing next at the Girl Play Lesbian Theatre Festival (TWTP) in Florida. In addition, Salem Theatre Company’s Moments of a Play Festival produced her play February First is an Annual Thing this summer. January 2011 The Muse received it’s first staging at Turtle Lane Playhouse’s Young Actors Winter Festival, and was later produced at The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival in NY. In the past year full-length play, Runner: The Novel The Play received a staged readingas part of the Inchworm PlayReading Series with Holland Productions. Runner: The Novel The Play was first performed at Brandeis University directed by Vicki Schairer (Free Play Theatre Cooperative). This past January she also began her project 52 Plays in 52 Weeks, her goal to write a ten-minute play a week for a year. Ms. Seinuk also works as a freelance Assistant Stage Manager for multiple theatre companies in Boston. Ms. Seinuk is currently an MFA student in Writing for Stage and Screen at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Seinuk is also the Co-Founder of Interim Writers, collective dedicated to the fostering and development of Boston Playwrights. She would like to thank Mike and her family for all their guidance and support.
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.
One Phrase to Describe My Favorite Characters:
Intense Angsty Young Adults
What Has Influenced My Writing?
I am a big fan of Samuel Beckett, Neil LaBute, Adam Rapp, Paul Auster, and J.M. Barrie (he wrote Peter Pan); I would say 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.
Cassie Seinuk’s recent successes include the title of Best Play at SWAN Day March Madness Festival in Boston for her ten-minute play Robin’s Nest. Robin’s Nest will be appearing next at the Girl Play Lesbian Theatre Festival (TWTP) in Florida. In addition, Salem Theatre Company’s Moments of a Play Festival produced her play February First is an Annual Thing this summer. January 2011 The Muse received it’s first staging at Turtle Lane Playhouse’s Young Actors Winter Festival, and was later produced at The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival in NY. In the past year full-length play, Runner: The Novel The Play received a staged readingas part of the Inchworm PlayReading Series with Holland Productions. Runner: The Novel The Play was first performed at Brandeis University directed by Vicki Schairer (Free Play Theatre Cooperative). This past January she also began her project 52 Plays in 52 Weeks, her goal to write a ten-minute play a week for a year. Ms. Seinuk also works as a freelance Assistant Stage Manager for multiple theatre companies in Boston. Ms. Seinuk is currently an MFA student in Writing for Stage and Screen at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Seinuk is also the Co-Founder of Interim Writers, collective dedicated to the fostering and development of Boston Playwrights. She would like to thank Mike and her family for all their guidance and support.
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.
One Phrase to Describe My Favorite Characters:
Intense Angsty Young Adults
What Has Influenced My Writing?
I am a big fan of Samuel Beckett, Neil LaBute, Adam Rapp, Paul Auster, and J.M. Barrie (he wrote Peter Pan); I would say 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.
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!
