Cassidy Cash

Cassidy Cash is an award winning animated filmmaker, historian, and artist. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, Cassidy attended elementary school at a private Christian school and completed her secondary education at Heritage Academy, where she studied Shakespeare, drama, and was classically trained as an artist in acrylics, pen, pencil, and pastels. While completing her degree in English and specializing in Shakespeare, Cassidy worked in film with the education company, AskDrCallahan. Cassidy was their lead filmmaker in charge of scripting, talent management, camera work, editing, and post production. In addition to her work behind the camera, Cassidy is the lead talent on their Algebra 1 video series. Following her work at AskDrCallahan, Cassidy pursued a career in freelance digital marketing helping companies from small startup entrepreneurs as well as large corporations and universities craft their online presence through graphic design, digital illustration, and filming various marketing promotional shorts including short form interviews, video tutorials, and classroom instruction videos. Cassidy would go on to start her own company, That Shakespeare Life, in 2017, researching and producing the video series Did Shakespeare, focusing on the life and history of William Shakespeare. The following year, in 2018, Cassidy launched her first podcast, That Shakespeare Life, a short form interview based podcast that talks with the world's leading experts on the life and history of William Shakespeare. In 2020, That Shakespeare Life launched a membership arm of the podcast, inviting listeners, historians, and Shakespeare enthusiasts to study and learn together through digital history activity kits that work like science labs, for history. In 2018, Cassidy became an internationally recognized filmmaker when she won the award for Best Animated Adaptation for a Shakespeare Play at the Shakespeare Film Festival in Stratford Upon Avon, England, the award for which was selected by Sir Kenneth Branagh.