Nick Cassenbaum
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Selected Past Work
October-November 2019
Cardboard Citizens- What's your story
London
Over 4 weeks Nick lead workshops on autobiographical story telling that culminated in a performance of the participants stories.
September 2019 to February 2020
Bubble Schmeisis Rural Tour
Various
Supported by various Rural Touring programmes and ACE. We will be touring rural venues across the UK
September-November 2018
Kiln theatre Volunteer tour guides
Kiln Theatre
Working with volunteers to create tours of the Kiln theatre based on their own stories and connections to Kilburn.
2018-2019
My Kind of Michael
BAC/ The Yard/ Summerhall at the Edinburgh Fringe and national tou
My Kind of Michael started at the Yard, Edinburgh and toured the UK in 2019
2018
You me the world and Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick
Working with the Yard theatre and take stock exchange to deliver a community story telling project in Hackney Wick
November 2016- ongoing
Bubble Schmeisis Tour
Check out the page for the next dates!
We will be touring the UK Spring and Autumn 2017!
March- May 2017
You, Me the World and Ilford
Ilford
Working with 12 community groups and Redbridge delivering bespoke workshops and performances that asks participants to question the relationship between Ilford, other people and the world around them. This is with take stock exchange.
Feb 2017
Soho young playwrights 2017
Walthamstow
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September 2016- 2017
Battersea Arts Centre volunteer tour guide project
Battersea Arts Centre
Working with people who have a connection with Battersea Arts Centre I helped create 10 original tours of the building.
To book on the tours click here
August 2016
Bubble Schmeisis at Ed Fringe
Summerhall
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July 2016 and December 2016
Manchester Jewish Museum and Battersea Arts Centre
Manchester Jewish Museum
I worked with the team at BAC and MJM to scratch an interactive and creative programme as part of the creative museum project.
July 2016
Schlep with Nick
Markfield Park
As part of the Royal Court's work in Tottenham I have been asked to make a series of work concerning the Jewish community in Stamford Hill.
You can come and hear them on July 3rd, 10th and 17th
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Click here to book.
February 2016
Soho Young Playwrights Project.
4 primary schools across Walthamstow.
I ran workshops across 4 primary schools in Walthamstow over five weeks with year 6. In the workshops I took the students through how to write a play. Over March they write their own plays and one from each school will be chosen to be performed at the Soho Theatre.
December 2015
The Elf B.I.
The streets of South London
For Emergency Exit arts I helped create a new walk about for Christmas. The Elf B.I. Santa's spies. I performed the show at various Christmas events over December.
21st October 2015
Scratch of 'United Kingdom'
Battersea Arts Centre
The first work in development of a new show I am making with Olly Hawes based on our work in Ilford.
October 3rd and 4th 2015
Fun palaces for Vestry House 'The Toy Maker'
Vestry House
For Slap Haddock I wrote and directed a new commision for Vestry House's fun palace. The piece was based on the interactive piece was based on the toy making history of Walthamstow.
continuous 2015-2016
Bubble Schmeisis
Richmix, CPT, JW3
My solo show about going to the baths got ACE funding and is currently touring.
August 2015
Funny Parculiar
Stoke on Trent
For this I led the community engagment and performed in a new prominade show about eccentric people.
The show was created by Red Herring.
Summer 2015
Re write the streets
Greenwich and Docklands Fair, Winchester Hat Fair, Out There Festival- Great Yarmouth
I am wrote reviews of street theatre for NASA for their new scheme 'Reframe the Streets' which aims to increase the conversation surrounding outdoor arts.
See reviews here.
June and july 2015
You me the world and Ilford # 2
Ilford wide
With take stock exchange I am back in Ilford. We are collecting stories from 8 community centres then will go back to the centres and share what we found.
We are supported by ACEUK and Redbridge Vision and Culture.
11th June 2015
Dice Festival
Rose Lipman Building
I performed a section from Bubble Schmeisis. A festival where you are allocated a number then they roll a dice. I ended up performing twice.
June-July 2015
Jumping the Gap
Two schools in Lambeth
I am working with a composer and Pegasus Opera Company to create operas in two schools about the transition from primary school to secondary.
March Half Term 2015
Walthamstow Firsts
Walthamstow Town Square
Slap Haddock are celebrated all the firsts of Walthamstow with a free performance surrounding a market stall that only sells firsts. The first ever Walthamstow First event, more details here.
April 23rd 2015
Beg Borrow Steal, Spit it out.
Arts Admin
A Saint George's Day event all about accents. I performed a couple of stories from Bubble Schmeisis.
Details of the show here.
March - April 2015
Half and Half community theatre piece
Millenium Centre, Cardiff
With Emily from Slap Haddock we are ran the outreach segment of Tinder Box Alley's newest project in Cardiff. We ran workshops with members Muslim Community questioning National identity through food. I then wrote a verbatim perfromance based on the workshop which was perfromed by actors, a youth theatre and some of the participants at the Millenium centre.
26th January 2015
Soho Young Playwrights
Across five schools in Walthamstow
I ran the workshops across five primary schools for the Soho Young Playwrights Project. I lead the participants to write the plays and some will be perfromed at the soho theatre.
18 February 2015
JL Circus MASH UP
Triangle Community Centre
Lead a clowning workshop for the half term circus workshops in Seven Sisters for Jackson's Lane theatre. See more here.
15 January 2015 to 26 March 2015
Soho Young Theatre Makers Programme
Walthamstow School for Girls
With Slap Haddock we are currently running the Soho Young Theatre Makers Programme in Walthamstow. It is a 10 week scheme where the participants will be guided to make a piece of theatre in Slap Haddock's style.
Lead a workshop on the way Slap Haddock make theatre. This was for Tender Buttons as part of their NHS Early Intervention in Psychosis 'Theatre Group' project.
Part of Small Story/Big City
There was a time every London Borough had its own public bath house. Many are gone, some are still around. People don’t know they exist. The audience will be invited into the forgotten world of an East London Baths. They will be taught the age old techniques of Schmiesing and brought into a heavy set Jewish world of stories, jokes and kvetches.
As part of the Deptford Fun Palace we worked with young people at the Albany to create a brand new street theatre troupe to perform on Joan Littlewood's centenary.
31st July-10th August 2014
One Green Bottle
C Cubed, Edinburgh Fringe
Working with GCSE and A Level students, I was commissioned to write a brand new play for the students to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe.
take stock exchange's most recent storytelling project across five community settings in Ilford.
Co-Artistic Director of Slap Haddock's project surrounding the cinematic history of Wood Street in Walthamstow.
Media
I created a section of JW3 and the Guardian's Sound's Jewish Podcast. Hear what I have to say on laughter, markets, my family and pig's eyes here.
Have a listen to my other podcast with the Guardian about my experience of going to the steam baths and what I found out by going there.