(Casting Director) is the current casting director for the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) and National Alliance of Musical Theater. Michael Cassara has cast many off-Broadway, regional theater, and touring shows including Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! (off-Broadway and cast recording), Forbidden Broadway: Comes Out Swinging! (off-Broadway/cast recording), Fat Camp (off-Broadway), Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project (directed by Chet Walker), Kingdom (The Old Globe, directed by Ron Daniels), Falling For Eve (book by Joe DiPietro, York Theatre Company), A Little Night Music, Cheer Wars (winner, 2009 Richard Rodgers Award, directed by Dan Knechtges), The Molly Maguires (directed by Sheryl Kaller, Music Director John McDaniel), Stephen Schwartz’s Captain Louie (National Tour), If This Hat Could Talk (National Tour, directed by Tony® Award-winner George Faison), The Gig (York Theatre Concert/Cast Recording on JAY Records, directed by Victoria Bussert), Barnstormer (by Douglas J. Cohen and Cheryl L. Davis, directed by Jerry Dixon), The Unauthorized Autobiography Of Samantha Brown (Makor, with Michael Arden and Celia Keenan-Bolger), Joy (off-Broadway and workshops). Film credits include Grantham & Rose (directed by Tony® Award-nominee Kristin Hanggi), Contest, and Clear Blue Tuesday (directed by Elizabeth Lucas). Learn more about Michael by visiting: here. michaelcassara.net