Michael Maso
Michael Maso led The Huntington’s administrative and financial operations as managing director from 1982 to 2023. He produced more than 260 productions in partnership with four artistic directors and is one of the most well-regarded executives in the theatre industry.
Michael Maso led The Huntington’s administrative and financial operations as managing director from 1982 to 2023. He produced more than 260 productions in partnership with four artistic directors and is one of the most well-regarded executives in the theatre industry.
Under his tenure, The Huntington received over 150 Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. He received the 2016 Massachusetts Nonprofit Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as TCG’s 2012 Theatre Practitioner Award, The Huntington’s 2012 Wimberly Award, StageSource’s 2010 Theatre Hero Award, the 2005 Commonwealth Award (the state’s highest arts honor) in the category of Catalyst, and the 2000 Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. In 2004 the Boston Herald honored him as Theatre Man of the Year. Maso led The Huntington’s ten-year drive to build the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which opened in September 2004, and the redevelopment of The Huntington Theatre though its reopening in 2022. Previously he served on the Boston Cultural Planning Steering Committee and as a member of the board for ArtsBoston, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and StageSource, and as a site visitor, panelist, and panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts.
From 1997 to 2005 Maso served as the president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of 75 of the country’s major not-for-profit professional theatres. In 2005, he was named as one of a dozen members of the inaugural class of the Barr Fellows Program. Prior to The Huntington, he served as the managing director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, general manager of New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company, business manager for PAF Playhouse on Long Island, and as an independent arts management consultant based in Taos, New Mexico.
Maso currently splits his time between Truro and Brookline, traveling, providing executive coaching and non-profit consultation services through Maso Consultants LLC, and writing about his 50-plus year career in the theatre.
As of October 2024.