Cassandra Medley's plays include:

"Ms. Mae"
One of several individual sketches which comprise the Off-Broadway musical, "A....My Name is Alice." First produced at the "Women's Project and Productions", the musical received the 1984 Outer Drama Critics Circle Award, and is still touring regional theatres and Europe.

"Ma Rose"
Produced by the "Women's Project and Productions," the Eureka Theatre, in 1990, and the Indiana Repertory Company in 1997, (published Samuel French).

"Waking Women"
Published, Antaeus "Plays in One Act", 1993

"Dearborn Heights"
Published in "Best Plays of 1995-96 and also by Dramatists Play Service, 1997.

"Maiden Lane"
Produced in the Ensemble Studio Marathon, 1999, (published by Farrer, Strauss in June, 2000).

"Waking Women", "Dearborn Heights," and "Ma Rose" were all produced in the Ensemble Studio Marathons in New York, 1986-95.

"Dearborn Heights" was produced at the ACT ONE Theatre Festival in Los Angeles.

Her most recent plays:

"Noon Day Sun"
Winner of the 2001 Theatrefest Award, produced in June, 2001, by the Theatrefest Festival in Montclair, New Jersey.

"Relativity"
Commissioned by the Sloan Foundation for new plays about science and technology.

Screenplays Include:

"Blackout On Honeysuckle Lane"
Joan Carswell Productions, broadcast on PBS, Video Series, 1983.

"Ma Rose"
Awarded the Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship in 1990.

"Almost Famous"
Screenplay for Richard Temtchin Productions, 1995.

"Dearborn Heights"
Screenplay, Kate Baggett Productions, 1998

"Esther"
Screenplay for East/West Productions, 1998.

"Sonny"
Screenplay for Greene Street Productions, 2001

   Ms. Medley was a 1986 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, and was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Grant for 1987.
   She was a 1989 finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in Playwriting, won the 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Playwriting, and the 1995 New Professional Theatre Award, the 1995 Marilyn Simpson Award, and was a 1994 finalist in the Eugene O'Neil National Playwrights Conference.
   She has taught playwriting at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Columbia University, University of Vanderbilt, William and Mary College, and currently, at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University.
    She has been a staff writer for "One Life to Live" on ABC Daytime Television.
    She is a playwright member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Playwrights Workshop of Healing Springs.