Jason Cascio

Jason Cascio had a hand in the following theatre productions at Knox and probably more.

• Durang/Durang
• The Really Useless Improv Troupe
• A Moon for the Misbegotten
• Standard Issue People presents "Suffer, Etc."
• Arcadia
• Postscript: The Death and Afterlife of Alex Post
• Elephants May Bite presents "Spontaneous Intrigue"
• Eastern Standard
• Lysistrata
• The Trojan Women
• Ah, Wilderness!
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Dancing at Lughnasa
• Titanic
• As You Like It
• Baltimore Waltz
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

He is currently living in Columbia, Missouri where he is pursuing his Ph.D in Immunology. He is still acting-

Summer 2007 - Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Summer 2008 - Hal in "Proof"

           - Cinesias in "Lysistrata"

Summer 2009 - Lucentio in "The Taming of the Shrew"

           - Doc Baugh in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

March 2010 - Carter in "Fat Pig" Summer 2010 - Iago in "Othello" Summer 2011 - Bassanio in "The Merchant of Venice"

He currently serves as the Production Chair on the Board of Directors for the Maplewood Barn Community Theatre in Columbia, Missouri.

His Ph.D work is in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Missouri. His research focuses on autoimmunity. He studies a mouse model of multiple sclerosis called Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE).