Creations and Press

Creations & Press

Hart Island

  • “Gives voice to stories that would otherwise be lost.”

    —The New York Times

  • “Weller’s powerful, lyrical script at once captures the desolation and despair of Hart Island as well as its beauty…”

    —Theatre Is Easy

  • “A profound meditation on what New York City and the rest of the world has gone through in the past few years: a spectrum of emotion from abject grief to acceptance.”

    —TheatreScene.net

  • “This theatrical event should be seen and heard both for its expansive intellectual reach and its extraordinarily immersive empathy.”

    —Theatre Reviews from my Seat

  • “Mason Holdings’ haunting Hart Island epitomizes downtown, avant-garde performance at its best: cerebral, theatrical, scrupulously researched, and bursting with heart.”

    —Theatre Is Easy

  • “Powerful and Beautifully Staged.”

    —TheatreMania

  • “Absorbing.”

    —The New Yorker

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Photographer: Maria Baranova

Found

Created and conceived by Tracy Weller and Kristjan Thor, Directed by Kristjan Thor.

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Photographer: Eraj Asadi

Consumption

  • “… surreal and hallucination-like… you need to book tickets for Consumption immediately.”

    (Read more on Theatre Is Easy)

  • “…outstanding performances…. I felt like a witness to someone else’s life, one that I just dropped into.”

    (Read more on The Reading Salon)

  • “We’re all witnesses to a fever dream—one that gets stranger and stranger over time…. Mason Holdings takes audiences on a wild ride through a somewhat true story.”

    (Read on No Proscenium)

  • “The performances were captivating…”

    (Read more on OnStage Blog)

Performed by Devin Burnam & Tracy Weller, with scenic design by Christopher Swader and Justin Swader & lighting design by Daisy Long

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Photographer: Matthew Dunivan

Holiday House

  • “If your taste is more experimental than established, check out this new movement-theater work from the Mason Holdings theater company and the writer and performer Tracy Weller”

    (Read more at the New York Times)

  • “an ageless, Russian doll-like specter; a white rabbit, of sorts, leading us into the labyrinth of her own memories and distorted reflections”

    (Read more at Stage Buddy)

  • “the experience is about as intimate as theatre gets”

    (Read more on Theater is Easy)

  • “an immensely watchable performance mostly due to the infallible Tracy Weller who’s mastering of the numerous characters is nothing short of absolutely astounding”

    (Read more on AXS)

  • “a spellbinding performance that begins full of whimsicality and gradually drifts into corridors quivering with madhouse echoes.”

    (Read more at Stage Buddy)

  • “An exquisitely immersive set design coupled with an eerie and uncomfortable performance makes this piece of downtown theatre haunting and intriguing”

    (Read more on Theater is Easy)

  • “Within a few seconds, it is easy to forget that you are in a theater and instead feel as if you are a guest in a private home.”

    (Read more on AXS)

  • “the show is creepy, perverse, and even a bit morbid. That’s my kind of holiday show, but if you’re looking for It’s a Wonderful Life, you’re not going to find it here”

    (Read more on Theater is Easy)

  • “if you’re an adventurous theatregoer, Holiday House intrigues. Weller’s performance is spine-chilling and riveting. Justin and Christopher Swader’s set design is a triumph. Zach Blane’s lighting and Phil Carluzzo’s sound complete the immersive experience.”

    (Read more on Theater is Easy)

Written and performed by Tracy Weller, directed by Kristjan Thor, scenic design by Christopher and Justin Swader, created and developed with Bixby Elliot.

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Photographer: Arion Doer

Jarring

Written and performed by Tracy Weller, directed by Kristjan Thor, scenic design by Christopher and Justin Swader

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Photographer: Joshua Paul Johnson

Love & Death Traveling Circus

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.

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Most Sincerely, Edward Albee

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.

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The Mason Holdings
Radio Hour

Announcing The Lost Diaries of Elena Hoyos Volume 2!

The Mason Holdings Radio Hour, an intimate experiential podcast in the spirit of good old-fashioned radio, launches this spring with The Lost Diaries of Elena Hoyos. Written and performed by Tracy Weller.

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Album Artwork: Gary Springer, www.gary-springer.pixels.com

Unseen & Unheard

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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Some playwrights have included:

Kevin R. Free
Admiral Grey
Devin Burnam
Paul Cohen
Elenna Stauffer
Daniel McCoy
Bixby Elliot
Lia Romeo
Stephen Kaplan
Gracie Gardner

Michael Niederman
Ryan Drake
Robert Kerr
Gene Lee
David Bemis
Tasha Gordon-Solmon
Nora Soren Casey
Adam Kraar
and. . . YOU?