Actress, stage manager, and voiceover artist Cassie Westbrook is nothing if not adaptable. The daughter of an English teacher and a technician in the Royal Canadian Air Force, she spent her formative years moving from province to province throughout her home country of Canada. With a dual childhood love of a) singing and b) reading aloud in class, it wasn’t long before Cassie had found her place on the stage.
At the age of eleven, she began classical vocal training, and worked her way through the Royal Conservatory of Music before attaining Grade 8 with Honours at age eighteen. That same year, she received on-the-spot acceptance at her audition for the Canadian College of Performing Arts (CCPA), and moved out to the west coast for two years of intensive musical theatre training.
Following college graduation, Cassie stepped away from theatre to pursue her other greatest passion: travel. She earned her wings as a flight attendant for a major Canadian airline, and spent 18 months travelling full-time before being lured back by the siren song of the arts. The start of 2020 found her in bella Italia, on contract with Educo Italia’s popular theatre-for-young audiences tour, Teatrino, performing interactive, ESL-oriented renditions of familiar tales for Italian children.
The pandemic ultimately was what influenced Cassie’s move into stage management. After an unexpected return home to Canada in March 2020, she pivoted and enrolled in Dalhousie University’s technical theatre program. After just two years of the program, she landed her first professional apprenticeship, and it’s been a whirlwind ever since!
In addition to her work in theatre, you may recognise Cassie’s voice from the radio — she has lent her voice to over a dozen commercials with brands such as Tourism NS, Eastlink, Knak, NS Power, CAA, and Atlantic Lottery, among others.
When not in the theatre, Cassie enjoys backpacking, writing poetry, cooking, reading historical fiction, learning about sustainable homesteading, and overall having way too many hobbies.
She is available for freelance and work inquiries.
Get in touch at ctwestbrook@icloud.com!