Who we are: CFT Staff
Caro Asercion
New Works Producer
Caro Asercion (they/them) is a producer, dramaturg, interdisciplinary artist, and advocate for new plays. After working on Crowded Fire productions Death Become Life: Banish Darkness and the Matchbox Reading Series, Caro joined CFT staff as a Literary Associate in 2019. Since then, they have helped steward the R&D Playwriting Lab, Crowded Fire’s new play development arm. Caro also wears a number of other hats at Crowded Fire, including artistic facilitation, line producing, and support for general operations.
Beyond CFT, Caro has helped to develop and produce new works at a range of theaters across the Bay Area and beyond, including A.C.T., Custom Made Theatre Company, Town Hall, the Asian American Theater Project, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Magic Theatre.
Caro is interested in new works that are structurally and formally iconoclastic. In addition to their work as an artistic producer, they hold a passion for interactive design experiences and the intersection between theatre and games.
To reach Caro directly, email CaroA (at) crowdedfire.org
CFT Credits
New Works Producer: 2025 – Present
Leader of Artistic Producing: 2022 – 2024
Artistic Facilitator: Edit Annie (2023)
Dramaturg: Kaleidoscope (workshop, 2022)
Script Supervisor: 2019 Matchbox Reading Series
Assistant Stage Manager: Death Become Life: Banish Darkness (2018)
Observership: 2016 Matchbox Reading Series
Producer: R&D Lab Reading Series (2021); 2023 Matchbox Reading Series; Developmental workshops of Shipping & Handling (2024), Kaleidoscope (2022), and KARA (2023)
Crowded Fire remains an essential artistic home for urgent, iconoclastic theatre, both in the Bay Area and at a national scale. It has been a tremendous privilege to grow in this experiment with the rest of our Shared Leadership Team. I’m excited to carry these learnings forward as our structure evolves, and to keep working alongside the team as we continue to cultivate a robust canon of bold, uncompromising new work.
