Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong

Hello! I’m Cassi (she/her), I’m a multi-disciplinary artist from Croydon, passionate about new writing in theatre and opera. My portfolio of work encompasses writing, directing, devising, dramaturgy, performing, composing and workshop facilitation. My creative practice focuses on collaborating with others to reimagine canonic material and creating original work which champions global majority voices.

Credits

Lead Artist & Co-facilitator, Young Creatives, Almeida Theatre, 1 performance, 2023

Director, Ruth & The Six of Calais (Opera Double Bill), Susie Sainsbury Theatre / Pegasus Opera, 3 performances, 2023

Director, The Vote, Arts Educational Schools, 1 performance (Internal Showing), 2023

U/S Rapunzel, Florinda & Lucinda, Into the Woods, Theatre Royal Bath, 4 weeks, 2022

Performer, Earth Makes No Sound, Hull Jazz Festival, 1 performance, 2022

Dramaturg, Legally Blonde, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, 12 weeks, 2022

Director & Dramaturg, Miss Gyrus, Camden People's Theatre, 3 performances, 2022

Director, CAMPOWANA, Mountview Backstage Theatre, 1 performance, 2022

Co-Writer, Shuck 'n' Jive, Soho Theatre On Demand, 2022

Co-writer / Composer, The Fourteenth Stop, Arcola Outside, Camden People's Theatre, Digital Schools and Community Tour, Shoreditch Town Hall, 10 performances, 2021

Princess Di and Others, Tony! (Workshop), Park Theatre, 2 performances, 2021

Director, Consensual, ALRA South Theatre, 1 week, 2021

Assistant Director & Supplementary Dramaturgical Work, The Flock, Minerva Theatre Chichester, 4 weeks (postponed), 2021

Madame Firmin, The Phantom of the Opera, UK & Ireland Tour, 18 months (postponed after 12 weeks due to pandemic), 2020

Co-Writer/Co-Producer, Shuck 'n' Jive, Soho Theatre, 4 weeks, 2019

Assistant Director, Baylis Youth Company Summer Project, ENO, 1 performance, 2019

Porgy and Bess, Grange Park Opera, 8 performances, 2019

U/S The Moon, Radio 1 & Radio 2, Caroline, or Change, Playhouse Theatre, West End, 12 weeks, 2018-19

Co-Writer / Producer, The Next Jessye Norman, Tristan Bates Theatre, 2 performances, 2018

Trees, The Pied Piper of Chibok, Grimeborn Arcola Theatre, 1 performance, 2018

Lucy Parsons / Flute, Haymarket - A New Folk Musical, Iris Theatre, 1 performance, 2018

Cappuccino Sister / Flute, Son of a Preacher Man, UK & Ireland Tour, 12 months, 2017-18

Assistant Director, Britten's Albert Herring, Harrow Opera, 1 week, 2016

Dramaturg, Wonderland - A New Musical, Edinburgh Fringe, 2.5 weeks, 2015

Director, Mozart's The Magic Flute, Grand Opera House York, 1 performance, 2015

Training

BA (Hons) Music - University of York
MA Musical Theatre Performance - Royal Academy of Music
Puppetry and Facilitation Intensive - Little Angel Theatre
Re:Assemble Dramaturgy Programme - Paines Plough
Writers Collective (Dramaturg) - Orange Tree Theatre