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MHS One Act Play

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.

Mason HS has participated at the State level of OAP 11 of the past 16 years.

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
  • 2025 2A  State Finalist - 6th place - Outstanding Technician - Leah Schmidt

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 2023  sf "Over the Tavern" by Tom Dudzick
  • Region Qualifier - State Alternate 2024 sf "The Book of Will" by Lauren Gunderson
  • State Finalists 2025  sf "The Boys Next Door" by Tom Griffin
  • 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