Cassie Cao is a Canadian Comedy Award winning comedian, writer, and actor based in Toronto. Cassie was a “New Faces of Comedy” at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival. Her standup can be seen in the first season of CBC Gem's The New Wave of Standup, Crave's The Standup Show with Jon Dore, and on both seasons of Roast Battle Canada. Cassie is a highly sought after television writer, having written for Netflix's Kim's Convenience, HBO Max's Detention Adventure, CBC's True Dating Stories and the live Giller Prize Award Show. She has also written for the stage for the Second City and The Blue Man Group. As an actor, Cassie can be seen in numerous television comedies such as Amazon's Kids in the Hall reboot, CBC's sketch show Tallboyz, and PBS Kids' Odd Squad. Cassie was formerly an economist and has years of experience telling jokes about the interest rate to prominent Canadian policy makers.