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Caitlin Nasema Cassidy

Caitlin Nasema Cassidy is an actor, director, and producer based in NYC.

Caitlin Nasema Cassidy (she/her) is an award-winning actor, director, and producer. Named a Leading Climate Creative by Grist, Caitlin generates physical, collaborative, and poetic performance that celebrates the more-than-human and uplifts underrepresented SWANA narratives. She has toured work nationally and internationally from Shakespeare’s Globe to The Spoleto Festival to The New York Times Climate Forward stage at COP28. The daughter of a Syrian-Lebanese mother and Irish father, Caitlin was raised between the deserts and forests of Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, and Massachusetts. She makes her home in NYC, where she serves as Co-Artistic Director of LubDub Theatre Co. CaitlinNasemaCassidy.com

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Essay

What Do We Know About the Earth? LubDub Theatre Co Invites You to Fill in the Blanks

24 July 2025

To Tell a Story About the Earth is part scripted play, part guided introduction to devising. The creative team reflects on their development process, which took them to Georgetown University for joyful, interdisciplinary co-creation at the crossroads of new play development, environmental studies, and local activism.

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Essay

Ten Transformative Ideas for Community-Building and Cross-Cultural Exchange

23 May 2018

Caitlin Cassidy discusses ten principles and practices she's learned as an artist working at the intersection of arts and cross-cultural exchange, and as one of Georgetown University's Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics Fellows.

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