When Cassandra Han began working in South Tyrol in 2014, she brought 14 years of experience casting in New York along with her. Over the last few years she has worked on more than a dozen feature films here in Europe, including projects for internationally renowned directors Terrence Malick and Giuseppe Tornatore. In addition to seeking out and developing local talent in South Tyrol, where she has
resided since 2008, she specializes in English-language casting for European projects: In guerra per amore (directed by Pif) and Ötzi and the Mystery of Time (One More Pictures/RAI Cinema) are now completed; she is currently working on several English-language features, all in various stages of development.
Casting credits from back in the New York days include the feature films Grind, Me and Veronica and blessing (Sundance 1994, nominated for Grand Jury Prize). Television work includes America’s Most Wanted, the History Channel and projects for Sesame Street. In collaboration with Emmy Award-winning producers, Terra Associates, Cassandra also cast many educational videos for top publishing houses like Scholastic, Harcourt, Pearson and Oxford Press. Her theater credits include Wild Men with George Wendt, A Dry and Thirsty Land at HERE and The Creation of the World and Other Business, directed by Oleg Kheyfets. She has also taught casting workshops for directors at the graduate division of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and audition workshops for actors at the School for Film and Television in New York. Further film and television production credits include The Basketball Diaries starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the PBS documentary series The Human Language and the children’s television series Way Cool. In the early 1990s Cassandra worked for one of Broadway’s top commercial producers, where she helped produce two national tours of Love Letters and served as a company manager. Other stage credits include three summers at the Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse and two seasons at the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Cassandra was also a founding member of Ethan Hawke’s New York-based theater company, Malaparte. She holds an MFA in acting and has appeared onstage at the Public Theater, Mabou Mines, New York Stage and Film, Soho Rep, New York Theater Workshop and regionally at Trinity Repertory Company.
Cassandra's casting associate and partner in life, Lorenzo Viti, grew up speaking Italian, German and South Tyrolean dialect; having lived abroad for many years, he also speaks English and Dutch fluently. Because of their multicultural background, Cassandra and Lorenzo strive to reflect South Tyrol’s position at a cultural and linguistic crossroads, working in equal measure with production houses from Austria (KGP, Prisma Film), Germany (Letterbox, Lieblingsfilm, Lucky Bird, Port Au Prince, Roxy, Studio Babelsberg) and Italy (Mir, Paco, Wildside). Cassandra now works in close collaboration with Lorenzo's company Background Players. Together they can easily meet the entire spectrum of casting needs, whether locally or internationally.
