BACKGROUND

Cassandra Magrath was a successful child actor who played main roles on TV shows Ocean Girl Series 1 & 2, Janus, The Wayne Manifesto, The Crash Zone series 1 & 2 and SeaChange Series 1-3.

As an adult she continued acting on stage and screen (Wolf Creek, Neighbours, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Utopia, Wentworth, Jack Irish, Winners & Losers, House Husbands, The Cry, The Pacific, Summa Coda, Scare Campaign, Ali's Wedding) while simultaneously teaching budding actors screen acting, audition preparation, on set working culture/conditions, pathways to getting an agent, the casting process and the difference between screen acting and stage acting.

Adjacent to acting Cassandra also works as a voice over artist, hundreds of TV and Radio commercials over the last 2 decades have featured Cassandra's Voice including The Australian Army, Libra, Carlton Dry, The Pancake Parlour & multi year campaign for Medibank and Terry White Chemmart

For over a decade Cassandra has been an off camera scene partner for actors auditioning for leading casting agents like Nathan Loyd (Wentworth, Where the Wild Things Are) and Nikki Barret (Furiosa, Mad Max  & Elvis) and for 2 years was a casting director at Chameleon Casting, directing actors in the room for roles in commercials for clients such as Myer, NAB Little Football Legends, Target, AAMI, NIKE and Holden. 

Cassandra has produced feature film 36 Questions, award winning short film Liz Drives, has a Masters of screenwriting from the VCA (2022) and is currently on her third music video collaboration. 

The only formal acting training Cassandra has had has been at 16th Street, starting with the very first master class offered - Ivana Chubbuck. Over the last decade master classes with Larry Moss, Elizabeth Kemp,  Iain Sinclair and Nancy Banks.  Recently she has extended her training at 16th Street Joanna Murray Smith's writing workshops and Iain Sinclair and Ian Rickson on how to direct actors.