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Let's Connect With ... Cassandra Moselle

Aaron Ganz
Mar 1, 2022
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Happy Tuesday! Welcome to Acting Class Daily. Each week we make a Kindred Connection with new members of our community - learning about formative moments, experiencing a few of their favorite things, tasting their artistic heart, and getting a look into their very soul.

Share Your Kindred Spirit

#KindredConnect … Cassandra Moselle

In the 10th grade I had to do a book report on an Italian Renaissance painter. There was only one woman painter on the entire list. I told my teacher I wanted to do my report on Artemisia Gentileschi. My teacher told me that there wasn't a lot of information on a woman painter and it would be easier if I picked one of the male painters. Adamantly, I stuck to my choice and have not only read many biographies about her life but I've traveled to see for myself every single one of her famous paintings (sans one) in person. And if that doesn't tell you my life story in a nutshell I don't know what will.

Connect with Cassandra: Website, Facebook or Instagram.


#IAMELYSIUM

Open Windows

They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Here’s an unguarded, unedited, uninterrupted minute with the windows open.

My Artistic Heart

Revealing the truest, rawest taste of your creative soul through any form of live expression.

My Elysium Artist

The “reputational quote” you’ll earn when you’ve reached your potential.

She didn't wait for an opportunity, she created it.

What about Elysium feels kindred in spirit to the artist you are today?

The connection of community.


#FearlessFavorites

Movies

  1. What's Up Doc

  2. Affair in Trinidad

  3. Dirty Dancing

  4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotlight Mind

  5. The Nightmare Before Christmas

TV Series

  1. Pushing Daisies

  2. Firefly

  3. The Handmaid’s Tale

  4. Saturday Night Live

  5. Schitt’s Creek

Songs

  1. Queer - Garbage

  2. Crazy On You - Heart

  3. I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

  4. Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar

  5. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty

  6. Criminal  - Fiona Apple 

Books/Poems/Plays

  1. Frankenstein (Mary Shelly)

  2. The Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir)

  3. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

  4. Brilliant Traces (Cindy Lou Johnson)

  5. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

Foods

  1. Spaghetti alla Carbonara

  2. Copper River Salmon

  3. Westcott Bay Oysters

  4. Quiche Lorraine

  5. Sushi


#TheInnerView

What role would you most like to live-through … and why?

Gypsy Rose Lee from Gypsy - we’re both burlesque performers with Seattle roots who moved to LA.

Tell us about a life-shaping moment.

Taking on the responsibility of being my father's caregiver and helping him live.

Share a moment when you experienced the best of yourself as an artist.

The post-show whisky toast, as I was riding a high of endorphins, having packed a house at the Edinburg Fringe Festival. It was a grind but I'd trade it all in to do it again, producing and performing in a damn good show.

Where have you travelled … and most want to travel?

Places I’ve been (plus or minus a few): Agrigento, Syracusa, Marzi, Cosenza, Troppea, Pompeii, Napoli, Roma, Ostia, Ostia Antica, Orvieto, Perugia, Arezzo, Firenze, Gubbio, Assissi, Montepulciano, Cortona, Siena, Isola d'Elba, Montevarchi, Pisa, Castelfiorentino, Bologna, Parma, Cinque Terre, Torino, Milano, Venezia, Rimini, Riccione, San Marino, Pesaro, Bertinoro, Treviso, Como, Verona, Bern, Lucerne, Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne, Mount Titlis, Barcelona, Paris, Versailles, Reins, Metz, Strasbourg, Luxembourg City, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Berlin, Frankfurt, Nuremburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Trier, Prague, Brno, Malovice, Ceske Budejovice, Český Krumlov, Bratislava, Vienna, Budapest, Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Lodz, Katowice, London, Stonehenge, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, York, Hull, Scarborough, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Airdrie, Inverness, Dublin, Cork, Cobh, Kerry, Limerick, Galway, Killarney, Salem, Boston, New York City, Newark, Pittsburgh, Lansing, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, Milwaukee, St. Olaf, Rapid City, Gillette, Bozeman, Butte, West Yellowstone, Yellowstone, Missoula, Salt Lake City, Cour de Lane, Spokane, Ellensburg, Yakima, Leavenworth, Pullman, Wenatchee, Lynden, Ferndale, Bellingham, Birch Bay, Blaine, Orcas Island, San Juan Island, Anacortes, Sedro-Wooley, Burlington, Mt. Vernon, Whidbey Island, Smokey Point, Marysville, Granite Falls, Everett, Mukilteo, Snohomish, Lynwood, Shoreline, Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Bainbridge Island, Vashon Island, Port Orchard, Southworth, Gig Harbor, Bremerton, Tacoma, Federal Way, Auburn, North Bend, Packwood, Centralia, Chehalis, Olympia, Tumwater, Puyallup, Monroe, Vancouver, Portland, The entire length of I-5, The entire length of I-90, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkley, Fresno, Los Angeles, Irvine, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Chandler, Mesa, Tombstone, Flagstaff, Sedona, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Salt Flats, Vancouver Island, Vancouver, Harrison Hot Springs, Calgary, Oahu.

Place I want to go next: a film set 😂

What does your perfect day-off look like?

Traveling to perform, with my partner.

Did you know…?

I have 5 degrees and 11 certificates of completion.


Kindred Spirits. Connect.

Share Your Kindred Spirit


#UnderTheVeil

We want to hear what you have to say.

Under The Veil takes listeners into the truth of life as an actor. Your stories, your moments, your successes and disappointments. Unedited. Uncensored. Unapologetic.

Boring, silly, heartbreaking, hopeful … whatever life is like for you, we’d love to hear it in your voice.

An anonymous hotline where you share and we listen.

New episodes of Under The Veil will be released Tuesdays throughout the year.

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