Mason Holdings is thrilled to announce our next project, Helen & Edgar, a collaboration with George Dawes Green (celebrated novelist and Founder of The Moth), and Edgar Oliver, (legendary storyteller, poet, actor and performance artist). Our film will be part memory play, part concert film, and part documentary. Based on the spoken word memoirs of Edgar’s terrifying Savannah childhood, the film chronicles a mother’s descent into madness, and the unbreakable bond of siblings, Helen and Edgar. Vast Shipwreck Productions and Mason Holdings are delighted to be co-producing Helen & Edgar. Kristjan Thor and George Dawes Green direct. Performers include Edgar Oliver, Helen Adelson, and Tracy Weller. Susan Chamberlin is our producer.  Helen & Edgar is a Vast Shipwreck and Mason Holdings co-production.

Yes, Mason Holdings is journeying into cinematic territory. What a gift – and one we cannot wait to share.

Small Acts of Daring Invention, inspired by the life and work of Dare Wright, author of the children’s book series The Lonely Doll, is an image-rich, musically driven exploration of the space between this life and the next. The play teases the realness of the unreal and investigates the endless resources of the imaginative realm. With one actress and five puppeteers, Small Acts lives in an expansive world where the child and adult consciousness coexist. The play asks: How do we bury and resurrect the past? Where does our soul find its home? How do we confront reality and dare to invent our own? On a journey delicate, dangerous, playful, and dark, transcendence is the final destination.

Hart Island is a good theatrical multimedia meditation on New York City’s Potter’s Field and the humans connected to it, living and dead. It weaves together the voices of the friends and family of Hart Island’s deceased, Rikers Island inmates and gravediggers, and fictional documentary narration.

A Mason Holdings immersive theatrical experience, celebrating the artwork of Mikel Glass, and in partnership with Nancy Manocherian’s the cell. 

“Come, take a teacup, tap a rusty muffler, taste a mysterious brew!
Gaze up into the cosmos, and watch your crayons melt.
Climb the stairs, hold the railing, meet the doll, who is the child, who is also maybe you.
Find the trash that is your treasure, in the playground you once knew.”

Inspired by the true story of Elena Hoyos and Carl Von Cosel, five disparate but intertwining couples fly through time and space to ponder the disease of love. An intimate, experiential and immersive work that will play for an audience of just thirty people per performance. 

The story of an oddly ageless child who returns to the many Christmases of her past, Holiday House: Christmas Bends immerses audiences in the world of her little attic bedroom, sharing her space, her fantastical games, and witnessing all her remarkable imaginative resources. Holiday House is both a darkly comedic experiential tour through phantom memories and a psychological study of how we experience childhood as outsiders, struggling to navigate and comprehend a world of deeply fallible adults. It is the gift of a strange and wondrous play date, and an unexpected visit with our own personal ghosts.

Jarring, a play inspired by the patients of Willard State Asylum and many other state mental institutions across the country, tells the story of one woman’s secret survival strategy, and also expresses broader concern for both lost stories and lost people.  Staged in the basement vault of a historic bank in lower Manhattan, Jarring is a meditation on isolation and the transcendent power of the imagination, as well as an inquiry into what it means to be labeled “sick,” “well,” “sane,” or “insane.”  Jarring asks: what lasts? What endures? And is there any hope for the invisible experience that lives a life unnoticed by a noisy and distracted world?

A dinner party and a wake, Floridian cocktails and knife throwing, paper airplanes and flying bullets — Mason Holdings invites you to explore love and death (with a side order of empanadas and cole slaw). Conceived and developed by Mason Holdings & Tracy Weller, directed by Kristjan Thor, written by Devin Burnam, produced in partnership with Project Y’s Women in Theatre Festival, and performed by Devin Burnam and Tracy Weller.

Accidentals encounters, misplaced letters, lonely strangers, obsessions and chance encounters that alter the fate of two unlikely neighbors. Conceived and developed by Mason Holdings & Tracy Weller, directed by Kristjan Thor, written by Tracy Weller, produced in partnership with Project Y’s Women in Theatre Festival, and performed by Devin Burnam and Tracy Weller.

The Mason Holdings Radio Hour is an intimate experiential podcast in the spirit of good old-fashioned radio. Season One presents: The Lost Diaries of Elena Hoyos, a fictional creation based on the strange and short life of a very real woman. Written and performed by Tracy Weller.

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Unseen & Unheard is a free monthly play reading series produced by Mason Holdings, curated and hosted by Tracy Weller. We offer playwrights with a non-commercial, experimental, exploratory edge a platform to see and hear their work in a theatrical setting with fellow artists. Writers, actors, musicians, and humans of intelligence, wit, and compassion are invited to join us for free food, drinks, and invigorating new plays in-development. Unseen & Unheard is an excellent place to share and develop your work, network with an eclectic crew, or simply lend your eyes and ears to the creative process.

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