As a company we spend endless hours rehearsing, giggling and sharing our lives and we wanted to share a bit of ourselves with you. Rather than posting tired bios with stats and degrees each company member created questions for another.
Interviewer: Molly Jackson
Interviewee: Mason Rosenthal
Describe your mindset as you are backstage, preparing yourself to perform.
What I am feeling is always different. Sometimes I am very nervous, sometimes confident, sometimes tired, bored, silly, irritated, ecstatic. But the practice is always the same. Preparing to perform my focus is on increasing my awareness of whatever it is that is happening. Both inside my own body as well as externally in other performers, the audience, the environment.
Describe a moment or two when you felt sublimely happy, or in general, what
makes you experience this feeling?
That performance mindset I described earlier is what makes me happy. It is a kind of
meditative practice for me. I feel very awake. Performing/rehearsing is the #1 place I
tend to experience that feeling, but being outside can trigger it too. Also traveling at
night.
If you were an animal what would you be?
My spirit animal is a Mole. A Mole has poor vision and is quite small, but a Mole is
extraordinarily strong for its size and is sensitive to vibrations. A Mole has a kind of
6th sense that gives it psychic powers.
Write a haiku describing Mason Rosenthal:
Bumping against walls.
Why can’t he see what’s right there?
Mason is night blind.
What was your first performance experience?
I was a Heffalump in a community theater performance of “Winnie the Pooh”. I think I
wore funky pants and sunglasses.
Describe your dream career
What I am doing now just with more money coming in. Creating original performance
pieces, performing in other people’s work, and teaching performance techniques.
Tell me three quirky things about yourself
1. I’m night blind. I have a genetic condition that makes it hard for my eyes to adjust
to low light.
2. I have a tattoo on my right butt cheek.
3. I had a blue tongued skink as a pet. It’s a kind of lizard with a huge blue tongue
that looks like a snake with legs.
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