Timothy Peter Mason (February 14, 1950, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota – September 12, 2023, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American playwright.

He is the son of Reverend John Martin Mason II (1908 - 2003), who was an author, a minister, and who traveled the country as an advocate for the elderly.

While in high school Timothy Mason performed in a number of plays at the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis.

While in college he wrote plays for the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, including Robin Hood a Story of the Forest and Kidnapped in London, which won the 1972 National Society of Arts and Letters Award.

[9] Mason created a 5-play "Young Americans Cycle", which includes: Ascension Day, The Less than Human Club, Time on Fire, Mullen's Alley, and My Life in the Silents.