Cassidy Brown

Okay, here goes.

Summer of 1987 I left Los Alamos and moved to Northern California to go to school at Sonoma State University, graduated with a (very practical) degree in Theater Arts. My last semester there I met a woman from Santa Fe, fell in love, and then left for Graduate School in Kansas City, Missouri (also in Acting). 3 years later, I moved back to California, then to Santa Fe with my girlfriend. I did a lot of theater and Improv Comedy there, drove a cab for a month, did a lot of temp work and lived off of her good job until we split up (very good friends still) in December of 1996. I moved back to the Bay Area, but returned two years later to be the best man at her father's wedding!

Also that summer, I was working a summer camp, where I had been working every summer since '88, and I got a visit from an old friend, Rami, (who also had worked there), and the connection was electric. We fell madly in love over the next 6 months, and then got married in 2002. You can view some good wedding photos at www.familiafoltz.com/BI08_contents_page.htm (I swear, it is worth the trip).

After doing a lot of random theatre teaching gigs and trying to break into the San Francisco Bay Area theater scene for a few years, I got a job in 2001 as Youth Program Director and Casting Director for The Willows Theatre Company in Concord, CA (East of San Francisco) I have continued to do lots of theater both there and at The Shotgun Players in Berkeley until this past January, when I quit my good, steady, full-time, salaried with benefits job at The Willows to pursue my acting career more fully, joining the Actors Equity Union (which means less work, but more money when I do work, plus Health Insurance if I work enough), and freeing up my schedule to audition at more companies. So far, it seems to be working out. I am doing a show at a pretty prestigious theater in Berkeley this summer, which is preventing me from coming to the reunion.

I am still doing a lot of work with my old companies as an independent consultant and am very active in the Bay Area Theater community, serving on committees and planning events. But most of all I am enjoying the life of the hungry actor again, not having to sit in an office all day and manage budgets and meet deadlines!

I still hang out with Jeff Martz whenever possible. He lives about 40 minutes away in Marin County. Believe it or not, we are still "best friends". But he has to write his own damn bio!

The pictures below are of my Headshot, Rami and I one Halloween, and me in the show "Noises Off"

Come visit me in the beautiful Bay Area anytime! Contact me at cassidyjbrown@gmail.com

Cassidy