CASSEY KIKUCHI KIVNICK
Select credits – Stage Management: Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2017 Pulitzer Prize nominee) and Holiday Sauce, Abandon (La Mama – OBIE award), Anatomy Theater (Beth Morrison World Premiere, Los Angeles); and Afterwardsness by Bill T. Jones, Social! The Social Distance Dance Club (Best Event of 2021, Time Out NY), and Carrie Mae Weems’ The Shape Of Things (all at Park Avenue Armory). Assistant to Baayork Lee (A Chorus Line – Broadway revival, London, Australia), Associate Director: La Boheme, University of Kentucky-Lexington Opera Theatre; SDCF Directing Assistant (A Christmas Carol – Adaptation: Patrick Barlow, Director: Joe Calarco), Mike Ockrent Fellow for Directing for Half Time (Director: Jerry Mitchell). Assistant Choreographer: The King and I (U.S., China, England, Australia). Cassey holds an undergraduate degree in linguistics with a minor in Spanish from Macalester College, and a master’s degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).