About Patrick Mason

Patrick Mason is an Irish director, teacher and writer. He lives in Dublin. He is currently a freelance director of theatre and opera, and an adjunct professor in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin.

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For over twenty years Patrick Mason has been an important figure in Irish theatre. From 1992 to 1999 he was artistic director of the Irish National Theatre where he achieved a high degree of stability in a troubled institution, and gained international recognition for his productions of new plays…. All his work manifests a strong sense of symbolism appropriate for his subsequent work as a director of opera.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance.