Who directed the episode 'The Masks'?

Ida Lupino directed the Twilight Zone episode “The Masks.” It aired on March 20, 1964, as the 25th episode of the fifth season and was written by series creator and narrator Rod Serling.

Set during Mardi Gras, the story follows the dying Jason Foster, whose greedy and cruel relatives gather around him expecting to inherit his fortune. Foster forces each family member to wear a grotesque mask representing that person’s true character. After midnight, the masks appear to transform their faces permanently, turning their outward appearances into reflections of their inner personalities.

Lupino was an important filmmaker as well as an actress. She directed socially conscious independent films such as “The Hitch-Hiker” and later worked extensively in television. She had previously appeared in the first-season Twilight Zone episode “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine.” That made her the only woman to direct an original Twilight Zone episode and the only person to act in one episode and direct another.