Patrick Mason (born 1951 in London)[1] is a British theatre director.
[1] He was appointed fellow in drama at the University of Manchester in 1974 and then lecturer in performance studies.
He returned to the Abbey Theatre as artistic director from 1993 to 1999.
[citation needed] Mason has been in a relationship with his partner Sean McCarthy (a former schoolteacher at a school in Rathmines) for more than three decades.
The couple met through the Abbey Theatre and live in Ranelagh, County Dublin.