Mason Rosenthal is an award-winning performance maker raised in Skokie, Illinois, and based in Philadelphia.
He is a founding member of Lightning Rod Special (LRS), whose recent work includes The Appointment (NYT' "Best Theater of 2019") and Underground Railroad Game (Obie Award for "Best New American Theatre Work," NYT “25 Best Plays of the Last 25 Years”). Mason is also a founding member of The Medium Theatre Company and one half of the performance art duo Ben and Ben's Brother.
Mason has taught acting, movement, collaboration, and creation at multiple colleges and universities. He was on faculty at NYU's Atlantic Theater Company Acting School from 2007 to 2011 before moving to Philadelphia to be the Headlong Performance Institute's first teaching fellow. From 2021 to 2023 he was on faculty at Virginia Tech's School of the Performing Arts and a fellow with the Center for Communicating Science. In 2023, he participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored Summer Institute on "Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Devised Theatre." He was teaching at University of the Arts' Ira Brind School of Theater Arts before its abrupt closure. He is currently on faculty at Temple University's School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts.
Mason holds a BFA in Drama with a minor in Art and Public Policy from New York University and completed his MFA in Performance as Public Practice with The University of Texas at Austin. He has studied improvisational dance and embodied anatomy with his teaching mentor, George Russell, since 2006.
Current: Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner, MAKE/SHOW, and an untitled LRS Semiquincentennial project
Recent: Nosejob, The Fluxus Brothers Present: Good Art Bad Art
He is a founding member of Lightning Rod Special (LRS), whose recent work includes The Appointment (NYT' "Best Theater of 2019") and Underground Railroad Game (Obie Award for "Best New American Theatre Work," NYT “25 Best Plays of the Last 25 Years”). Mason is also a founding member of The Medium Theatre Company and one half of the performance art duo Ben and Ben's Brother.
Mason has taught acting, movement, collaboration, and creation at multiple colleges and universities. He was on faculty at NYU's Atlantic Theater Company Acting School from 2007 to 2011 before moving to Philadelphia to be the Headlong Performance Institute's first teaching fellow. From 2021 to 2023 he was on faculty at Virginia Tech's School of the Performing Arts and a fellow with the Center for Communicating Science. In 2023, he participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored Summer Institute on "Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Devised Theatre." He was teaching at University of the Arts' Ira Brind School of Theater Arts before its abrupt closure. He is currently on faculty at Temple University's School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts.
Mason holds a BFA in Drama with a minor in Art and Public Policy from New York University and completed his MFA in Performance as Public Practice with The University of Texas at Austin. He has studied improvisational dance and embodied anatomy with his teaching mentor, George Russell, since 2006.
Current: Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner, MAKE/SHOW, and an untitled LRS Semiquincentennial project
Recent: Nosejob, The Fluxus Brothers Present: Good Art Bad Art