Samantha Mason

Samantha’s latest show is quickly approaching! Spell is part of a three production repertory series by Gemini Collision Works taking place this August at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Written and directed by the ever talented Ian W. Hill (World Gone Wrong, Kiss Me Succubus, At the Mountains of Slumberland).

Spell is a full length production which centers around the interrogation of an American woman who considers herself a patriot and who has committed a horrible, murderous, terrorist act on US soil. “A patriotic scream. An examination of a serious mental disorder. An incantation. A length of time.”

Friday, August 1st - 8pm
Sunday, August 3rd - 8pm
Thursday, August 7th - 8pm
Saturday, August 9th - 4pm
Sunday, August 10th - 8pm
Wednesday, August 20th 8pm
Saturday, August 23rd - 4pm
Sunday, August 24th - 8pm

The Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY (Lormier subway stop off the L Line).

Check out the Brick website for more information on the other two Gemini Collision Works shows in rep, Everything Must Go and Richard Foreman’s Harry in Love.

Samantha’s latest show, The Wild, Wild Women of Wakky NuNu! opens this Sunday, May 11th!

Following on the heels of January’s successful and critically lauded production of Bitch Macbeth, this new original production from Do What Now Media is a full length, multi-media comedy full of tikis, amazons, and madcap intensity.

Under the direction of writer-director (and co-star) Frank Cwiklik, Samantha will be playing Stevie Pulaski, a fiery photographer with a lot to prove and a chip on her shoulder. Beginning Sunday the 11th, the production will run Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights at the Red Room in NYC until June 3rd. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased here.

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Samantha is currently in rehearsals for her next big project coming up in May, a comedic romp or silliness called The Wild, Wild Women of Wakky NuNu!

The next production from Do What Now Media, the minds behind the recent successful run of Bitch Macbeth, Wakky NuNu is the latest work by writer/director Frank Cwiklik.

Set in an insane but tropical landscape full of Amazons with issues, Samantha will be playing Stevie, a hardass photographer with a chip on her shoulder and a mean long range lens.

Wakky NuNu is scheduled to run from May 11th through June 3rd at The Red Room in Manhattan. Check back for more info!

A quick shot from The Oval Portrait, from HeBro Productions and the School of Visual Arts. A ghostly Samantha Mason visits Tom Ashton as a wounded soldier.

Photography by Vesta Goodarz.

Samantha is currently in the process of filming The Oval Portrait, an HD short from HeBro productions and The School of Visual Arts. Directed by Dan Brosnan, shooting will take place from February 1st through the 4th on location in the wilderness of the Catskills in upstate New York.

Results of the process and the finished film will become available upon completion of the project. Stay tuned for future updates!

Following a FOUR STAR review from TIME OUT NEW YORK, Bitch Macbeth is going into its last weekend!

Just a reminder that Samantha’s current show, Bitch Macbeth, will be running at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn for just one more weekend.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased either at the door or online, but the show has been consistently sold out without exception for the past few weekends. Those interested are urged to get tickets NOW via TheatreMania.com.

Located at 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY (Lormier subway stop off the L Line, just two stops into Brooklyn from Manhattan).

Thursday January 21, 2008 –8pm
Friday January 22, 2008—8pm
Saturday January 23, 2008—8pm
Sunday January 24, 2008—7:30pm

What have people been saying about the show?

Time Out New York calls it “mindboggeling, multilayered, overwhelming… Cwiklik’s dialogue has it’s own peculiar poetry…”

“Ambitious, expansive, startlingly graphic, inspired…filled with crackling energy…”, Backstage.

“Uncompromisingly an original…a big, ambitious, visually and aurally stunning work of theatre…unlike anything I’ve experienced before…” NYTheatre.com

Also, check out the exclusive internet Podcast from NYTheatre.com with Bitch Macbeth director, Frank Cwiklik.

Samantha’s in a new show!

This upcoming January, Do What Now Media will present their 2008 production of their critically acclaimed Bitch Macbeth. Following two previous successful runs in 2000 and 2003, writer and director Frank Cwiklik is launching a new and revamped production in the new year.

Samantha will be portraying Femme Macbeth the cunning, brutal, and always ambitious lady-wife of Macbeth, in this epic tale of the collapse of an empire. Running weekends in January, the production will appear at Brooklyn’s Brick Theater, named Time Out New York’s “Essential Theater Space for 2007.”

From the Bitch Macbeth website, where additional information about the show, tickets, and publicity photos can be found:

In a dark and stony cathedral, a pair of dominas divine a prophecy in the whip-worn scars of a penitent slave’s back. Macbeth is chosen, a long, hard road, a climb. As he and his Femme rise, kill, slaughter, the House of Asbury, torn by addiction and destitution, unravels publicly, sending Prime, a sensitive young girl, into an abyss of sadosexual torment, and her brother, Small, to join his sadoslave and confidante in a burgeoning revolution that may bring about the total destruction of this alien civilization.

Tickets are $25, and directions to the space can be found at the website for the Brick Theater.

Previews January 4th and 5th at 8pm, January 6th at 7:30pm
Performances: January 10-27th. Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm

Yesterday one of Samantha’s articles was featured on the frontpage of BBC Technology!

One of her daily blog entries for gaming and entertainment newsite Next-Gen.biz was quoted by the BBC under the headline, From the Blogsphere. The article, which discussed the recent induction of the Atari 2600 into the national Toy Hall of Fame, originally ran last Friday, November 9th. It can still be read on next-gen.biz and, although the headlines featured on BBC Tech change daily, you can see a screen capture of her BBC debut after the jump.

As always, you can check out more of her explorations into the world of gaming and entertainment on Foot2Mouth.com and in next-gen’s daily blog.
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New show! This one’s a quick one-shot, but it packs a punch.

On Saturday November 17th, Samantha can be seen as Alice in Orientation Day as part of the Id America Festival.

The festival, put on by Quo Vadimus Arts, is designed to showcase 30 plays about American Identity, written by playwrights from 15 states across the country. The event is divided into several categories, including plays that focus specifically about American Psyche, American Culture, American Dreams, Assimilation in America, Attitudes Towards Race, and Pharmapsychology In America.

Orientation Day was written by Chris Shaw Swanson from Euclid Ohio and will be directed by Jesse Edward Rosbrow, Artistic Director of NYC theatre company, Theatre of the Expendable. As part of the Pharmapsychology In America portion of the Id America Festival, Orientation Day will be paired with The 7-Second Itch, written by Stephen Miller of Orlando Florida.

For more information about the Id America Festival or to purchase tickets for Orientation Day ($5), visit the Festival Website. The November 17th performance will take place at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York City at 4pm.

In journalism news, Samantha has just been assigned to the Editor’s Daily Blog over at Next-Gen.biz, the fabulous UK based website for next-generation interactive entertainment news. That’s right, video games in all their splendor.

You can check out her daily postings here. Be sure to shoot out an email if you’ve got a comment or come across an exciting, blog-worthy news topic.

And as always, for more of Samantha’s exploits into journalism, check out Foot2mouth.com, where she and the talented F2M team tackle news about video games, comics, media, and culture.

Peace and D-Pad Love.