Mason Wood

Director of Media and Marketing

Mason is a New Orleans native who has been marketing and creating digital content for the arts since 1996.

His 21st century clients have included Trevanna Entertainment, Spotify, The Red Bull Music Academy, Renaissance Hotels, The Apollo Theater (Harlem, NY), The National World War II Museum (New Orleans), The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation, The Louisiana Book Festival, WYES-TV (New Orleans), Jackson Prep (Jackson, MS) and the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (Atlanta). As a videographer his work contributed to the Emmy-winning public television documentary New Orleans: The First 300 Years. He has also worked on personal projects for filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Last Night in Soho, Baby Driver), for actor Max Greenfield (TV’s The New Girl), and for actor Harry Shearer (TV’s The Simpsons, Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind) and his wife, singer Judith Owen.

For eleven years, Mason worked as the Director of Video Production for Intersection, an Alphabet-owned media and technology company in New York City, where his work was a finalist in the Cannes Lion festival of Creativity Awards. Mason served as the Director of Marketing for the historic Saenger Theatre in New Orleans from 2001-2005, leading the efforts to celebrate the building’s 75th anniversary in 2002, and then helping rebuild the company’s digital assets lost during Hurricane Katrina. He was an Emmy-winning producer for ChicagoLand TV News, before moving on-camera as a reporter-anchor for WAFB-TV, the CBS affiliate in Baton Rouge, LA. Mason also was a features writer and film critic for the New Orleans-based newspaper Gambit Weekly.

Working in theatre, Mason has directed and produced nearly a dozen theatrical productions, including an acclaimed, extended run of Steve Martin's play Picasso at the Lapin Agile performed in the Library Lounge  the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New Orleans. As an actor he appeared onstage in productions of1776, Amadeus, Into The Woods, The Music Man, Peter Pan, The House of Blue Leaves, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The 39 Steps, Young Frankenstein, Shrek, and Monty Python’s Spamalot. In March 2025 he briefly stepped into the roles of J.P Morgan/The Judge for two performances of CSTC’s production of Ragtime The Musical .