Cassie Slater is a skilled arts education practitioner who has developed invigorating curriculum for national and international arts education programs. She has extensive real-world experience producing and directing challenging and exciting full length plays and musicals for young students. Cassie is a playwright, deviser, and maker of traditional and immersive theatre pieces for both children & adults.
actor & singer
Cassie Slater is an award-winning actor and singer. After receiving her BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University, she began her career in Chicago where she was a recipient of a Joseph Jefferson Award. Regionally she has worked with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Timeline Theater Company, Barrington Stage Company, The Marriott Theatre, and Peninsula Players Theatre among many others. She has worked extensively in the development of new musicals (BMI and William Finn’s Musical Theatre Lab at Barrington Stage Company) and originated the roles of Lauren and Judy in BSC's See Rock City and Other Destinations (again at NAMT). She has been a featured vocalist at Birdland, Joe's Pub, Merkin Concert Hall, Lincoln Center, Don't Tell Mama, and Ars Nova. In 2009, she won the New York Music Theater Festival's Next Broadway Sensation Competition, which led to her solo show Chimera at Joe's Pub. TV: Chicago PD.
BFA Acting: The Theatre School at DePaul University 2003
Neighborhood Playhouse Meisner Intensive Certificate 2002
teacher & director
Cassie created the award winning Stomp and Shout Kids in 2012 which went on to bring a decade of happiness and learning to the early childhood set in Chicago and beyond. She was the creative director for Sunrise Arts in Shanghai China for two seasons and has taught and/or directed for multiple young people’s programs across the US. She was an adjunct faculty member at Roosevelt University and is on faculty at Francis W Parker School in Chicago.
Cassie is the Associate Artistic Director at Lamb Arts Regional Theatre in Sioux City, IA.
MFA: Theatre Arts: University of Idaho at Moscow
Directing Certificate: New International Performing Arts Institute (Berlin, Germany) 2023