Joel Mason, director
Edinburgh Music Theatre
Directed TheProduceres
Hidden Door Festival
Wrote and directed Once Was Human
Liminal Theatre
Wrote, produced, directed and performed Southern Freud Chicken
Cromarty Arts Trust
Fourteen week residency as playwright in residence
Macrobert Theatre
Devised and directed Twin Grandchildren for the youth theatre. This show was created in collaboration with Mashirika Theatre in Kagali, Rwanda for the 2006 Contacting the World theatre festival in Manchester.
A Shot In The Dark Productions
Directed Crimes of the Heart
Collusion Theatre Wrote and directed From Failing Hands. A subsequent production of the show
won the Scottish Youth Final competition for best play 2006.
Centre for Community Arts Research and Practice
Taught workshops as an associate practitioner
Squonk Opera
Production manager, actor, creative collaborator. International touring
Towson University Teaching
Theatre 103: Introduction to American Theatre
Theatre 101: Introduction to Acting (Stanislavski based)
Liminal Theatre
Co-founder, Artistic Director
Created and directed East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Integrating elements of Bunraku, classical Indian dance,
Chinese opera, and mythic folk tale.
University of Rhode Island Teaching
Theatre 227: Dance for Musical Theatre
Theatre 111: Introduction to Acting
Theatre 100: Introduction to Theatre
Jozeph Atilla University, Szeged Hungary Teaching
Experimental Methods for performance and ensemble development
Towson University Assistant Director for For Love, a kabuki adaptation of Romeo and Juliet Directed by kabuki master Shozo Sato
Directed Komachi, the first of three one acts in the trilogy Three Poets by Romulus Linney, using a close adaptation of Bunraku as a performance style.
Created and directed Fathers Footsteps, an exploration into father and son relationships using carnival practices of Trinidad and Tobago as a performance style.
Boston Flamenco Ballet US tour, Directed Cyrano and The Three Musketeers, fight choreographer, actor, road manager
Theatre Mask Ensemble US tour, Ensemble member, stage manager, opened at the Riverside Dance Festival in New York City
West Virginia State Musical Theatre Designed and built Oklahoma, and Barefoot in the Park
Choreographed fights for Peter Pan
Teatro Gumbo Limbo Directed Ti-jean and the Unicorn
University of Rhode Island Assistant Technical Director
Props Master
Technical Director for tours
Theatre West Virginia Fight choreographer for Prince Hamlet, Jekyll and Hyde, Honey in the Rock, and Hatfields and McCoys
Education
BFA in Theatre from Towson University (pending completion of thesis)
BFA in Theatre from the University of Rhode Island
Certification as an actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors
Additional classes from the University of South Carolina and Chappman College
US Navy C school, graduated top of class
Japanese Tea Ceremony, with tea master Shozo Sato
References: Please contact me for references.
Directed TheProduceres
Hidden Door Festival
Wrote and directed Once Was Human
Liminal Theatre
Wrote, produced, directed and performed Southern Freud Chicken
Cromarty Arts Trust
Fourteen week residency as playwright in residence
Macrobert Theatre
Devised and directed Twin Grandchildren for the youth theatre. This show was created in collaboration with Mashirika Theatre in Kagali, Rwanda for the 2006 Contacting the World theatre festival in Manchester.
A Shot In The Dark Productions
Directed Crimes of the Heart
Collusion Theatre Wrote and directed From Failing Hands. A subsequent production of the show
won the Scottish Youth Final competition for best play 2006.
Centre for Community Arts Research and Practice
Taught workshops as an associate practitioner
Squonk Opera
Production manager, actor, creative collaborator. International touring
Towson University Teaching
Theatre 103: Introduction to American Theatre
Theatre 101: Introduction to Acting (Stanislavski based)
Liminal Theatre
Co-founder, Artistic Director
Created and directed East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Integrating elements of Bunraku, classical Indian dance,
Chinese opera, and mythic folk tale.
University of Rhode Island Teaching
Theatre 227: Dance for Musical Theatre
Theatre 111: Introduction to Acting
Theatre 100: Introduction to Theatre
Jozeph Atilla University, Szeged Hungary Teaching
Experimental Methods for performance and ensemble development
Towson University Assistant Director for For Love, a kabuki adaptation of Romeo and Juliet Directed by kabuki master Shozo Sato
Directed Komachi, the first of three one acts in the trilogy Three Poets by Romulus Linney, using a close adaptation of Bunraku as a performance style.
Created and directed Fathers Footsteps, an exploration into father and son relationships using carnival practices of Trinidad and Tobago as a performance style.
Boston Flamenco Ballet US tour, Directed Cyrano and The Three Musketeers, fight choreographer, actor, road manager
Theatre Mask Ensemble US tour, Ensemble member, stage manager, opened at the Riverside Dance Festival in New York City
West Virginia State Musical Theatre Designed and built Oklahoma, and Barefoot in the Park
Choreographed fights for Peter Pan
Teatro Gumbo Limbo Directed Ti-jean and the Unicorn
University of Rhode Island Assistant Technical Director
Props Master
Technical Director for tours
Theatre West Virginia Fight choreographer for Prince Hamlet, Jekyll and Hyde, Honey in the Rock, and Hatfields and McCoys
Education
BFA in Theatre from Towson University (pending completion of thesis)
BFA in Theatre from the University of Rhode Island
Certification as an actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors
Additional classes from the University of South Carolina and Chappman College
US Navy C school, graduated top of class
Japanese Tea Ceremony, with tea master Shozo Sato
References: Please contact me for references.