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Mack Lawrence

First-year MFA Playwriting Student

Biography

Mack Lawrence (they/them) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, playwright, and dancer from Austin, TX. As a trans playwright and a sixth-generation Austinite, their work traverses foundationally queer stories with a distinctly southern voice—using humor and queer normalcy as a way to challenge and provoke the way trans stories are told. 

Mack has been a part of MOtiVE Brooklyn’s For the Artist! Residency program. Their project DINNER, a devised multimodal dance theater melodrama about a group of long-time queer friends coming together at a dinner party, was presented at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, NY. 

Additionally, Mack’s play Waco Boy Club, has been presented by Breaking & Entering Theater Company (Brooklyn, 2024) and will be a part of National Queer Theater’s 2026 season (New York). Mack performs with ARCOS Dance, most recently as a part of Ether Dust, a movement tour through rural West Texas. They received their BFA in Dance from UT Austin.

Education

BFA in Dance - UT Austin