Timothy Mason has spent most of his life working in theatre, first as an actor in his native Minneapolis and then as a playwright. He has won the National Society of Arts and Letters Award, a playwriting fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Twin Cities Drama Critics Circle Award, the Hollywood DramaLogue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre, and was nominated for Newsday’s Oppenheimer Award. His plays include Charity's Children ; Babylon Gardens; In a Northern Landscape, first produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1983; Levitation, which premiered in New York City at the Circle Repertory Company in 1984; Bearclaw, initially presented in 1984 by Lucille Lortel and Circle Rep at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut; Before I Got My Eye Put Out, produced in 1985 by the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, and Only You, presented by New York’s Circle Repertory in 1987. Mr. Mason is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Actors Equity Association. Manhattan has been his home for over ten years and New York’s Circle Repertory, where he is a Company Playwright, has been his theatrical home since 1983.