Cassandra Fumi is a multi-award winning theatre director. Directing credits include; RHINOCEROS (fortyfivedownstiars), WORLD PROBLEMS (Melbourne Theatre Company), THE CROCODILE (Winner Best Director 2024 Green Room Awards), FAR AWAY (fortyfivedownstiars), THE MERMAID (La Mama Theatre - 2021 VCE Playlist), DOG SHOW (Melbourne Fringe Hub). She was the Associate Director on A VERY JEWISH CHRISTMAS CAROL (Melbourne Theatre Company) and Assistant Director on THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA (Melbourne Theatre Company).
She also has a community-engaged practice and works with non-performers, community groups, and young people to create new works. Her practice is socially engaged and holds at its heart a championing of theatre’s unique ability to allow for the creation of community, expression, and a deep seeing and sharing.
Inspired by fairytales, new writing, memes, and experiences she creates a multi-sensory context that encompasses both the spectator and performers as creators and storytellers. This blurred performer/spectator boundary, together with the specificity of the created world, builds a space of confrontation where spectatorship and performance open up social behaviours to interrogation.
She is deeply curious and driven by artistic collaboration, heightened theatrical worlds, and challenging theatrical form and its possibilities.
Cassandra works as an artistic associate, community liaison and regular conspirator with Samara Hersch, THE RABBLE and APHIDS.