Michael Andrew Cassara (born April 14, 1981 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio) is an American casting director, educator, and genealogist.
Recent New York credits include Forbidden Broadway, Fat Camp, The Jack Cole Project (dir.
Chet Walker), and a number of independent films including Clear Blue Tuesday, Grantham and Rose, and Contest.
He is particularly known for his collaborations with contemporary musical theatre writers, including Gerard Alessandrini, Neil Berg, Randy Blair, Douglas J. Cohen, Joe DiPietro, Tim Drucker, Kait Kerrigan, Timothy Huang, Bree Lowdermilk, Ryan Scott Oliver, Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire and artists including Hinton Battle, Sheryl Kaller, Richard Kind, Dan Knechtges, Baayork Lee, John McDaniel, Joe Morton, Billy Porter, Lonny Price, Randy Skinner, Alex Timbers, and BD Wong.
A lifelong genealogist, Cassara specializes in Italian and Sicilian research and has spoken numerous times at the RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.