<MAKE><SHOW> a Performance Creation Workshop with Mason Rosenthal

A four-part workshop for performing artists interested in deepening their creative practice. Led by Mason Rosenthal, this workshop series is for artists of all experience levels, working on projects at any stage of development.

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Each Sunday will offer dedicated time to share research, experiment with material, and receive feedback. Between gatherings, participants will pursue independent assignments, bringing new discoveries and questions back to the group.

Rather than prescribing a particular outcome, the workshop creates a structure for artists to follow their curiosity, take creative risks, learn from one another, and build momentum around their projects.

DISCOVER: Gather source materials, references, and inspirations. Expand your vision through collaborative performance research.
DEFINE: Identify key questions, tensions, and intentions at the heart of your project. Articulate what you're investigating and why it matters.
DEVELOP: Generate new material and refine existing work. If this, then what else is possible?
DELIVER: Synthesize your experiments into actionable next steps. Leave with a sense of where to take your work and how to keep it moving.

SCHEDULE
4th Sundays January - April, 2027
10:00 AM–2:30 PM @ Studio 34, West Philadelphia
- Sunday, January 24 – DISCOVER
- Sunday, February 28 – DEFINE
- Sunday, March 28 – DEVELOP
- Sunday, April 25 – DELIVER
Four in-person Sunday gatherings, with independent research and creative assignments between sessions.

Pricing + Registration:

• $400 for the four-part series

• $350 early bird registration before December 15th

• Tuition includes four in-person Sunday sessions, one 1-hour private rehearsal with Mason, and two 30-minute Zoom consultations to support your project and creative process.

• Sliding scale and trades available. If cost is a barrier, please reach out.

More About Mason
www.masonmake.show

Through research, collaboration, and experimentation, Mason Rosenthal makes shows to surprise himself and others. He has created nearly 100 original performances as an independent artist and across a wide range of collaborations. His work crosses genres, disciplines, and subjects; he is a performer and director with a love for devised theater, performance art, experimental dance, and socially engaged practice.

Mason is a founding member of Lightning Rod Special (LRS), whose critically acclaimed productions include 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”). He 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 over 20 years of teaching experience with students of all ages. He has taught acting, movement, collaboration, and creation at numerous 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." Mason was teaching at University of the Arts' Ira Brind School of Theater Arts before its abrupt closure. He is currently in residency at Princeton University as part of The Civilians' The Next Forever Commission. Mason is the recipient of a 2026 Creative Capital Award.

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. Mason studied improvisational dance and embodied anatomy for many years with his teaching mentor, George Russell.

Current work includes developing Super Compassionate, producing for Cannonball, leading LRS's America Again, and an upcoming NYC premiere of the Bragi award-winning show, FORIEGNER.

To learn more about Mason's work, please check out his projects page.