Roger Q. Mason - Laughing, Loving, & Alive - December 12, 2021

Join us as we interview Roger Q. Mason. Mason (they/them) is an award-winning writer, performer, and educator known for using history's lens to highlight the biases that separate rather than unite us.  Mason was recently dubbed by The Brooklyn Rail as "quickly becoming one of the most significant playwrights of the decade."  Their playwriting has been seen on Broadway at Circle in the Square (Circle Reading Series); Off and Off-Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, New Group, The Fire This Time Festival, Dixon Place, American Theatre of Actors, Flea Theatre, and Access Theater; and regionally at McCarter Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Victory Gardens, Chicago Dramatists, Steep Theatre, Serenbe Playhouse, Theatre Rhinoceros, Open Fist Theatre Company, EST/LA, Coeurage Theatre, Rogue Artists Ensemble, Son of Semele, and Skylight Theatre.  They are an honoree of the Kilroys List; the Chuck Rowland Pioneer Award; the Fire This Time Festival Alumni Spotlight, and the Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore Producers Award.  Mason's films have been recognized by the SCAD Film Festival, AT&T Film Award, and Atlanta International Film Festival.  They've screened at Hollyshorts, Outfest, Lonely Wolf Film Festival, Reeling Film Festival, Bentonville Film Festival, Outshine Film Festival, and the Pan African Film Festival.  Mason holds degrees from Princeton University, Middlebury College, and Northwestern University.  They are a member of Page 73's Interstate 73 Writers Group, Primary Stages Writing Cohort, the co-host of Sister Roger's Gayborhood podcast, the co-founder/lead mentor of the New Visions Fellowship for Black Trans and Gender non-conforming playwrights, and the lead mentor of The Shay Fellowship for emerging black solo performers.