Cassey Kikuchi Kivnick

Cassey Kikuchi Kivnick worked for several theatre and musical performances. Selected credits as Stage Manager include Taylor Mac’s “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” (2017, Pulitzer Prize nominee), “Holiday Sauce” and the Obie Award-honoured production “Abandon” (La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York), “Anatomy Theater” (Beth Morrison World Premiere, L.A.); and “Afterwardsness” by Bill T. Jones, “SOCIAL! The Social Distance Dance Club”, and Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Shape Of Things” (all at Park Avenue Armory, New York). Kivnick was Assistant to Baayork Lee (“A Chorus Line”, Broadway revival, London, Australia) and worked as an Associate Director for “La Boheme” (University of Kentucky-Lexington Opera Theatre, 2022) as well as SDCF (Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation) Directing Assistant for “A Christmas Carol” (Adaptation: Patrick Barlow, Director: Joe Calarco), Mike Ockrent Fellow for Directing for “Half Time” (Director: Jerry Mitchell) and as Assistant Choreographer for “The King and I” (U.S., China, England, Australia). Kivnick 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).