Cassie Chapados
Cassie Chapados she/her/hers (Associate Artistic Director) is thrilled to be back at CST for another show this season! Most recently at CST, Cassie served as the Associate Artistic Director for Silent Sky. Cassie was the Director of Production at CST until September 2023, and now works as the Technical Supervisor for Harvard’s Theater, Dance, and Media program. Since joining the CST family, she also served as the Associate Artistic Director for The Half Life of Marie Curie and the Nora’s That’s What She Said Program, in addition to directing the world premiere of Laura Maria Censabella’s Beyond Words, several staging readings, and the current tour of Betsy Bard’s Inventing Samanta with Youth Underground.
As an artist and educator, she is passionate about the stories of young people, particularly young, queer, women and femmes, and has focused largely on this work as a director. Some favorite local directing projects outside of CST include: Holy Chicken Sandwich and honeyhole (Moonbox New Works Festival); Sweeney Todd, Something Rotten!, and She Kills Monsters (Watertown Children’s Theater); Idawalley (Fresh Ink Theatre); and Meet Me in the Bathroom (Boston Conservatory).
In addition to her directing work, she has served as a technical director, scenic designer and painter, fight choreographer, and intimacy director with a variety of local companies and educational institutions including Babson College, Wellesley College, Flat Earth Theatre, Hub Theatre Company of Boston, Boston College, Lesley University, Tufts University, Arlington Catholic High School, Boston Playwright’s Theatre, Off the Grid Theatre Company, Central Square BID, and Open Theatre Project.