Cassie Beck is a winner

Cassie Beck, local actress and co-artistic director of San Francisco’s Crowded Fire Theatre Company went off to New York to be in Adam Bock's Drunken City. And what do you know? She won a Theatre World Award for her New York debut!Beck first worked on Bock's play when it was part TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival (the play was developed as part of the company New Works Initiative). Beck was also featured in TheatreWorks’ production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, directed by Beck's husband (and Crowded Fire co-artistic director) Kent Nicholson.This year's Theatre World Award winners include:de'Adre Aziza, Passing StrangeCassie Beck, Drunken CityDaniel Breaker, Passing StrangeBen Daniels, Les Liaisons DangereusesDeanna Dunagan, August: Osage CountyHoon Lee, Yellow FaceAlli Mauzey, Cry-BabyJenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with GeorgeMark Rylance, Boeing-BoeingLoretta Ables Sayre, South PacificJimmi Simpson, The Farnsworth InventionPaulo Szot, South Pacific The Theatre World Awards ceremony will be held in Manhattan June 10 at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre.