Barbara Cassidy is a playwright and director whose work has been seen at JACK, The Flea Theatre, Playwrights’ Horizons, Little Theatre at Dixon Place, The New York International Fringe Festival, Bric Studios, Southern Methodist Universit,y and on the Hudson River. She is a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Recipient, a SPARC grant recipient, an HB Studio Residency recipient and has received grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council. She earned her M.F.A. at Brooklyn College, where she studied with Mac Wellman. Her play, Interim, was nominated for the Barrie Stavis Award and a scene from her play, The Director, is included in Best Scenes for Two for the Twentieth Century. Three of her plays, The Director, Una, La Whore Del Mundo, and Iowa of My MIND are published on indietheaternow.com. Cassidy teaches as an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and is a New Georges Affiliated Artist.
Barbara Cassidy
Studios
Schelling
Barbara Cassidy worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…