Writer/Director
Writing
Photograph: Robbie Bryant
Cassiah is an award-winning writer for both her work on stage and screen. She came in the top 2% in the BBC Script Room Drama 2021 (and came in the top 3.5% in 2018) and her feature spec For My Mother was a Finalist in the West Field Screenwriting Awards 2018. In 2016, her play Under My Thumb was a finalist in the Red Women Theatre Awards 2016, and was then nominated for Best New Play at the New South Writing Awards in 2017. Cassiah's newest play 'London With A Perfect Skyline' previewed at Katzpace, London Bridge in 2019. She is also a BBC New Creative, commissioned for her first audio drama in 2020 broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in July 2021. She is currently working on a feature script commission for Altter Films.
Cassiah also has a number of feature and TV ideas available for development - please get in touch if you would like to see any of her work.
Commissions
Détente Audio Drama - Writer
Transmission: BBC Radio 4 Extra 2021
BBC New Creatives, Rural Media
The Winchester Geese Feature, Screenwriter- Script Commissioned
Production Company: Altter Films
Hear Me Roar! Feature, Co-Writer- Script Completed, Pre-Production
Production Company: Unfolding Entertainment
Tom: Boy [Working Title] Feature, Screenwriter- Script Completed, In Development
Production Company: Que Vida La Vida Productions
Her Sari Short, Screenwriter- Script Completed, In Development
Production Company: Image Nova
The Canary Girls Feature, Co-Writer - Script completed
Mark Andrew Powell
London With A Perfect Skyline - Playwright
Previews: Katzpace Theatre 2019
Workshops: Exploding Whale Theatre 2018
How To Invest In Poverty - Playwright
Stagings: Greenwich Theatre 2018
Rehearsed Reading: Scottish Refugee Committee 2016
Under My Thumb - Playwright
Stagings: Assembly Roxy 2017, Warren Theatre 2017, New Diorama Theatre 2017, Greenwich Theatre 2016
Rehearsed Reading: Greenwich Theatre 2016