BIOGRAPHY.

Cassie Cao is a Canadian Comedy Award winning comedian, writer, and actor based in Toronto. Cassie was a "New Face of Comedy" at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival and now regularly tours festivals and theatres across the country. Her standup can be seen in the first season of CBC Gem's The New Wave of Standup, Crave's The Jon Dore show, and on three seasons of Roast Battle Canada. Cassie is a highly sought after television writer, having written for Netflix's Kim's Convenience, HBO Max's Detention Adventure, CBC's True Dating Stories and the live Giller Prize Award Show. She has also written for the stage for the Second City and The Blue Man Group. As an actor, Cassie can be seen in numerous television shows including Kids in the Hall, The Boys, and What We Do in the Shadows. She is also a regular culture commentator on CBC radio's Commotion.

Cassie was formerly an economist and has years of experience telling jokes about the interest rate to prominent Canadian policy makers.

Photography by Kristina Ruddick