12 Facts About Rachel Mason

Rachel Mason is an American filmmaker whose work includes performance art, music, films and multimedia projects.

Rachel Mason has an older brother, Micah, and a younger brother, Josh.

Rachel Mason's mother was initially a journalist and her father worked as a special effects engineer in the film industry.

In 1982, Rachel Mason's parents took over the gay porn bookshop Circus of Books in West Hollywood, without telling their children what they did for a living.

Rachel Mason attended Wonderland Avenue Elementary School, Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies and Cleveland High School in Reseda.

Rachel Mason received a BFA in art from UCLA and an MFA from Yale University.

Rachel Mason's debut feature film The Lives of Hamilton Fish is a musical art film with no dialogue.

Rachel Mason often performed the entire soundtrack live in front of an audience while touring the film to museums and festivals.

The Lives of Hamilton Fish premiered at London's Raindance Film Festival in 2015, and Rachel Mason performed with the film as a live performance at museums including LACMA, Art in General, Henry Art Gallery, Corcoran Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, The Horse Hospital, Pineapple Underground Film Festival, and Night Gallery.

Rachel Mason is a songwriter and performer; she's an actress, of a sort, who performs as if channeling the poetic inner souls of controversial leaders like Fidel Castro and Manuel Noriega.

In October 2023, Rachel Mason joined the Museum of Neon Art's "Light in the Dark: Queen Narratives in Neon" exhibition, participating in a panel discussion about LGBTQ+ connections to neon art and the Glendale, California community.

That same year, Rachel Mason directed and produced Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna centering on Halyna Hutchins, for Hulu.