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Cassi Harris received her B.F.A. in theater at California Institute of the Arts and her M.F.A. in playwriting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where in her second year she produced the Fresh Ink Festival of New Plays at New York's Douglas Fairbanks/John Houseman Studio Theatres. Her plays have also received productions at New Jersey's Livingston Theatre and the Bloomington Playwrights' Project. Her work has had professional staged readings at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Chicago Dramatists Workshop, New York's Circle Repertory Theatre and John Houseman Studio Theatre and at the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays. Her play about a rural Indiana family, Francis and the Biograph Girl was a winner of the 1995 Y.E.S. Festival of New Plays at Northern Kentucky University. In addition, Harris has worked extensively as a professional freelance writer and as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. She is a performer and writer with Broom Street Theater, one of the oldest continuous-running experimental theaters in the United States.
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