Marshall W. Mason Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Marshall W. Mason (born February 24, 1940) is an American theater director, educator and author. He was the founder and for eighteen years, artistic director of the Circle Repertory Company in New York City (1969-1987).Born in Amarillo, Texas, Mason graduated in 1961 with a B.S. in theater from Northwestern University, where he directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the age of 19, winning his first award for directing. Upon graduating, he relocated to Manhattan, where he began working in the off-off-Broadway theater scene in such venues as Caffe Cino, the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and Judson Poets Theatre. He made his off-Broadway debut in 1964 with a revival of the Henrik Ibsen play Little Eyolf. The following year he directed Balm in Gilead, his first collaboration with playwright Lanford Wilson. Since then he has directed more than sixty productions of Wilson's plays, which Playbill has identified as the longest collaboration between a playwright and director in the history of the American theater. Among these are The Hot l Baltimore (1973), for which he won his first Obie Award for Distinguished Direction, Fifth of July (1978), Talley's Folly (1979), Angels Fall (1983), Burn This (1987), Redwood Curtain (1992), and Book of Days (2002).Mason has directed twelve productions on Broadway and has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play five times. His first Broadway production was the 1976 play Knock Knock by Jules Feiffer, for which he received his first Tony nomination. Additional Broadway credits include Albert Innaurato's Gemini (1977), Robert Clark and Sam Bobrick's Murder at the Howard Johnson's (1979), Wilsons' Fifth of July (1980), Talley's Folly (1980), Angels Fall (1983), Peter Nichols' Passion (1983), William M. Hoffman's As Is (Drama Desk Award for Best Play, 1985), Wilson's Burn This (1988), Chekhov's The Seagull (1992), Rupert Holmes' Solitary Confinement (1992) and Wilson's Redwood Curtain (1992). Off-Broadway Mason was awarded five Obies for Outstanding Direction for The Hot l Baltimore (1973), the New York premiere of Tennessee Williams' Battle of Angels (1974), Wilson's The Mound Builders (1975), Jules Feiffer's Knock Knock (1976), Wilson's Serenading Louie (1976), and a sixth Obie Award for Sustained Achievement (1983). Memorable off-Broadway productions he directed include Edward J. Moore's The Sea Horse (1974), Romulus Linney's Childe Byron (1981), Wilson's Talley & Son (1985), William Mastrosimone's Sunshine (1989), Larry Kramer's The Destiny of Me (1992), Wilson's Sympathetic Magic (1997) and Book of Days (2002). Mason is the recipient of the 1979 Theatre World Award, and the 1977 Margo Jones Award for his discovery and nurturing of new playwrights and actors in his work with the Circle Repertory Company, as well as a 1999 "Mr. Abbott Special Millennium Award" as one of the most innovative and influential directors of the twentieth century.He has worked widely in regional
He was awarded the 1987 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Direction for "Burn This" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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He was awarded the 1981 Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Direction for the play, "A Tale Told" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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He was awarded the 1979 Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Achievement in Direction for "5th of July" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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He was awarded the 1979 Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Achievement in Direction for "Talley's Folly" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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In 2014 he was named to the Theater Hall of Fame.
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He was nominated for the 1977 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for "Old Times" at the Academy Festival Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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He was nominated for a 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director of a Play for "The Farm" at the Academy Festival Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Was the founding artistic director of New York City's Circle Repertory Company, which closed in 1996.
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Was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Director (Play) five times: in 1976 for Jules Feiffer's "Knock, Knock," in 1980 for Lanford Wilson's "Talley's Folly," in 1981 for Lanford Wilson's "Fifth of July," in 1983 for Lanford Wilson's "Angels Fall," and in 1985 for "As Is." He was awarded the 2016 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He also received six Obie Awards for his work Off-Broadway.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Picnic
1986
TV Movie
American Playhouse
1982
TV Series 1 episode
Kennedy's Children
1982
TV Movie
The Mound Builders
1976
TV Movie
Sextet Yes
1971
Short
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Broadway: The Next Generation
2018
Documentary filming
Himself
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2017
Documentary post-production
Himself
Greenwich Village: The Times They Are a-Changin'
2016
Short
Himself
The 70th Annual Tony Awards
2016
TV Special
Himself - Winner, Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre