Creative Forces...Who's Who

Cassandra starring in "The Kitchen Spanish Tango"

Cassandra in "The 7 Sins of a Body Hating Food Lover"

Cassandra Hume (Writer. Actor) is a proud founder of In Search of a Song Productions. Her first play, a one-woman show, The Kitchen Spanish Tango (2007), turned her half-Mexican restaurant blues into parody and song. Cassandra’s second full length play, The 7 Sins of a Body-Hating Food-Lover (2008), lovingly tackled the voices of body image that must be laughed at someday. Cassandra participated in Monarch Theater’s playwriting workshop with Migdalia Cruz in December 2008 and began writing her next surreal play about a young girl in Rio De Janeiro, titled, Saudages. She is thrilled to be in production with her third play, The 'Ex'-Cycle, another NYC-based romantic satire, which tackles the comedy of life after "the break-up."
Cassandra graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. Acting Theatre Credits include: Showing Out (Nuyorican Poets Cafe), Sweet Bird of Youth, Deborah in From Door to Door (Broward Stage Door) Happy Journey to Trenton & Camden (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and film credits include Arya. She studies acting with Penny Templeton, and is grateful for her early ballet training at the Washington School of Ballet and all the fuel that provided.

Catherine DeCioccio

The Cast & Crew of "The 7 Sins of a Body-Hating Food-Lover.

Catherine DeCioccio (Director, Actor) began her career at the ripe old age of 5 after appearing in her kindergarten production of “Where the Wild Things Are.” Hopelessly in love with the theater, she went on to perform as an actor and dancer both nationally and internationally before calling New York home in 2006. With ISOS Productions, Catherine has been a part of development of "The 7 Sins" and "The 'Ex'-Cycle. “The Ex Cycle” marks her NYC directing debut. For more info please visit www.CatherineDeCioccio.com.

Danielle Vetro

Danielle Vetro (Producer. Actor) is thrilled to be a part of ‘The Ex-Cycle’ Creative Team. Currently, she works for Hyperion Productions LLC as a theatrical booking agent and is excited to be delving into the world of producing. She has her BFA in musical theatre from Shenandoah University and has traveled the country as a professional actress. Since 2007, she has been “nesting” in New York and is getting her hands into all kinds of things! She fully supports this production and is eager is get others on board! For more on Danielle visit, www.daniellevetro.com.

Jody in "The 7 Sins of a Body Hating Food Lover"

Jody Kay Litman (Actor. Writer. Singer) collaborated on the development of The 7 Sins of a Body-Hating Food-Lover from its first reading, both inspiring and creating the role of Daphne. Jody is currently thrilled to be collaborating with Randy Redd on her new one-woman show, Monster in My Brain: The Musical! currently in workshop development. Jody recently finished the feature film, A Sicilian Tale (Don’t Go There Productions), in which she plays Angela Mills, which premiered at New York International Film Festival,and Tribeca Film Festival. Other film work includes Day Zero, In Men We Trust, and photo double for Uma Thurman in My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Jody has performed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, many off and off-off Broadway theatres, Shakespeare and Shaw plays at the National Theatre Institute in London, and improv comedy at Gotham City Improv and UCB. For more info visit, www.jodykaylitman.com

Vonia with "The Kitchen Spanish Tango" cast

Vonia Arslanian (Actor. Director) made her New York directorial debut with, The Kitchen Spanish Tango and followed by directing and producing The 7 Sins of a Body-Hating Food-Lover for ISOS at the Manhattan Theater Source. Vonia graduated with a B.A. in Theater from Western Washington University. In New York she has been seen onstage in the Manhattan Theater Source’s Estrogenius Festival (2007), Already in Progress (No Tea Productions), at the Othnological Theater’s Mythic Figurations (Title Point Productions), and in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (MTB Studio). Vonia can be seen on film in the hit rat zombie indie, Mulberry Street, and soon in the feature film, The Black Site (Flippant Films). Vonia currently studies acting with Mary T. Boyer.

Eilis with "The Kitchen Spanish Tango" cast

Eilis in "The 7 Sins of a Body Hating Food Lover"

Eilis Cahill (Actor. Writer) both created and inspired the role of Vivey in The 7 Sins of a Body-Hating Food-Lover. Eilis has been seen onstage regionally as Helen in The Cripple of Inishmaan at Shadowland Theatre, and recently in New York in Stripping Eden (EAT Festival.) She has also appeared in several indie and short films, most recently Search by Lisa M Perry, Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1 (Sugar Factory Films), as Johanna in the short film, Blue Eyed Mary, and as Ramona in The Christmas Carrot. Her one-woman show would be titled: Pottymouth, and involve her mugging by a homeless man, a lot of profanity, and a 6-foot toilet. Eilis is currently writing a children's novel.

MISSION

In Search of a Song Productions was founded in 2006 to develop stories, particularly those of women, that express the cry, the scream, or silence which might go unexpressed but demands to be heard. We are all storytellers, but we search for how to express our story. Beyond introducing new solo works, ISOS is committed to incorporating, music, dance, and mixed media into theatrical productions which follow humor and truth to the dark, sometimes bizarre places where imagination may lead.