Mason High School has a UIL award-winning theatre program. The school has won a total of five championships; the current program has won four State Championships,
two silver and three bronze placings.
Out of the last ten State contests, Mason has placed or won in nine of them.
State UIL One-Act Play Contest Record
1966 2A State Champions - Samuel French Best Actor - Gerald Geistweidt
2010 1A State Second Runner-Up - Best Actress - Star Longoria
2013 1A State First Runner-up
2014 1A State Champions -Samuel French Best Actress Cassie Benefield
2015 2A State Champions - Outstanding Technician-Spencer Bierschwale
2016 2A State Champions - Outstanding Technician-Spencer Bierschwale, Best Actor - Jackson Chapman
2017 State Second Runner-Up
2018 State First Runner-Up
2021 State Second Runner-Up - Best Performer - Hannah Bishop
2022 2A State Champions - Samuel French/Best Performer - Hannah Bishop
Outstanding Technician-Walker Ince
2023 2A State Finalist - 4th place
The UIL One-Act Play Contest, founded in 1927, is the largest high school play production contest or play festival in the world.
More than 14,000 Texas high school students in more than 1,200 plays participate in 300 plus contests, which take place from the beginning of March through the three-day, 40-production State Meet One-Act Play Contest.
The League's theatre program is considered by historians to be the foundation of educational and community theatre in Texas.
It continues to be a major factor motivating increasing numbers of schools to offer theatre arts as an academic subject.
State Champion 2014 sf "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" by Alfred Uhry
State Champion 2015 sf "The Death and Life of Larry Benson" by Reginald Rose
State Champion 2016 sf "You Can't Take It With You" by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
State Second Runner-Up 2017 sf "Blithe Spirit" by Noel Coward
State First Runner-Up 2018 sf "Rabbit Hole" by David Lindsay-Abaire
Region Qualifiers 2019 sf "Picnic" by William Inge
District Champions 2020 sf "Silent Sky" by Lauren Gunderson (completion of season canceled due to pandemic)
State Second Runner-Up 2021 sf "Silent Sky" by Lauren Gunderson
State Champion 2022 sf "The Miracle Worker" by William Gibson
State Finalist sf "Over the Tavern" by Tom Dudzick
State Champion One Act Play 2015
sf "The Death and Life of Larry Benson" by Reginald Rose
State Champion One Act Play 2014
sf "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" by Alfred Uhry
Additional MHS Past One Act Productions
2013 sf "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley STATE FIRST RUNNER-UP
2012 sf "Cheaper by the Dozen"
2011 sf "The Curious Savage"
2010 sf "Harvey" STATE SECOND RUNNER-UP
2009 sf "Figments"
2008 sf "The Women of Lockerbie" by Deborah Brevoort
2007 sf "The Death and Life of Larry Benson" by Reginald Rose REGION QUALIFIER
2006 sf "Scenes and Revelations" by Ellen Garonzak REGION QUALIFIER
2005 sf "The Learned Ladies" by Moliere
2004 sf "Blithe Spirit" by Noel Coward
2003 sf "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" by Alfred Uhry
2002 sf "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley REGION QUALIFIER
2001 sf "The Curious Savage"
1966 sf "The Devil and Daniel Webster" STATE CHAMPION
