David Mason - NYC-based Theatre, Film & TV Actor

Seared

MCC | dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel

Thirst

Dorset Theatre Festival

Dig

Dorset Theatre Festival | Written and directed by Theresa Rebeck

Almost, Maine

Geva Theatre Center

Oslo

Northern Stage

The Velocity of Autumn

Cape Playhouse

News

Thrilled to be John Turturro’s understudy and replacement for the final week of this stunning production, helmed by Diane Paulus and starring Turturro, Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany.
Tending bar in FX’s THE BEAUTY episode 1 directed by Ryan Murphy - January 21, 2026
Excited to have been a part of this timely world premiere immigration story by Jessica Huang. Running Nov 14 - Dec 21 in Berkeley, CA.
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Returning to Theresa Rebeck’s beautiful play and sharing it with NYC.
Thrilled to make my Broadway debut as part of the team for this beautiful new play by Sharr White, directed by Bart Sher.

Reviews

DIG

Mason is absolutely frightening from the outset… haunting performance.

The Berkshire Edge

OSLO

David Mason, as Terje, never lets the character’s intellectual passion for peace completely outshine the man’s egotism…

Seven Days VT

Round and Round the Garden

The scene toward the end of the second act with Tom, played by David Mason, gave the evening an unexpected depth. Mason, in particular, inhabited a character who doesn’t easily communicate emotions. Hilarity ensued with every sentence from Tom that would hang and hang there.

Seven Days VT

Seared

David Mason beautifully bottles up Mike’s simmering rage and frustration, then lets it boil over to perfection.

theaterlife.com

Seared

…performed by a glittering ensemble cast…

The Wall Street Journal

Seared

…Esparza and Mason match, if not exceed, Rodriguez’s flamboyance in defending their respective characters’ fiefdoms. Moritz von Stuelpnagel directs, and if there has been a more fired-up ensemble on the New York stage this year, I haven’t seen it. Rebeck wrote three big roles, and this trio puffs them up into something even bigger.

The Wrap

Seared

Under the superb, precisely choreographed direction of Moritz Von Stuelpnagel (Hand to God, Present Laughter), the actors go through their frenetic verbal and physical paces like expert farceurs.

Hollywood Reporter

Seared

David Mason, a master of the harried slow burn…

The New York Times

SEARED

David Mason beautifully bottles up Mike’s simmering rage and frustration, then lets it boil over to perfection.

theaterlife.com

Table Manners

Mason is brilliant here. He shines from the corner of a room, or from the chair with the sawed-off legs. He knows how to make a lack of words speak pages and pages in folio size.

Berkshire Bright Focus

The Velocity of Autumn

[Mason] is another actor with the gift of the spoken word, and every emotion he told of was grueling, wrought with either the deepest feelings of pain, regret and on occasion, happiness when speaking of his childhood. He gives a riveting performance, and watching both he and Fowler undoubtedly makes for one of the best…

BroadwayWorld