He holds an MA in Creation Spirituality from Holy Names College and an MFA in Theater, Ritual, & Social Justice from Goddard College. He has practiced zen for 30 years under the guidance of Robert Kennedy Roshi and has 20 years of personal Jungian Analysis. At St. Peter's University, he directed 17 Greek Theatre Project productions and taught Theater and Social Justice courses. Casey is a certified teacher in the spiritually based, Michael Chekhov Theater Technique. He was an ensemble member of two experimental companies affiliated with La Mama ETC in New York; he spent two years with the Grotowski-based Ritual Theatre Group, Dzieci, and five years with the psychophysical theatre company, Magis. His company, Inner Compass Productions, works out psychospiritual challenges through drama. The play, Excavating Katrina, attempts to resurrect New Orleans by weaving together stories as if they were the scattered body parts of the Egyptian God, Osiris. In The Wise Man of Nyokodo, a Japanese Catholic Peace activist engages the Pilot who dropped the bomb on Nagasaki with principles of nonviolence. Seelos: Doctor of Seelos takes the audience on a healing journey up the spine and the chakras through seven scenes paralleling the seven Catholic sacraments. In a scene he wrote for a film about the war in Ukraine, called A Non-Fictional War, Casey's character, Slava, serves as doula for his wife's rebirth after her descent to the Underworld (view video clip here). For his work in A Non-Fictional War, Casey and his fellow actor, Erin Cessna, won Best Performance in the Best Film Festival in Barcelona.