In 2007, Cassils was awarded a merit scholarship to participate in a residency program at the Banff Center for the Arts and a Creation Grant from the Canada Council of the Arts Intra Arts department, which allowed them to create an experimental documentary and performance titled Simulation In Training.
In 2009, Cassils won the Franklin Furnace Performance Art Fund[REF] for the performance Hard Times, their first piece integrating these aesthetic, physical and political concerns.