Mack Lawrence (they/them) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, playwright, and dancer from Austin, TX based in Brooklyn, NY. 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’s play Waco Boy Club, which will be produced as a part of National Queer Theater’s 2026 season, sits in the magic (and complications) of the friendship between three trans young adults in Texas as they question: What does love feel like? Who does Cosmo secretly want to fuck? Does chicken salad have to be served on bread?  

Mack has been a part of MOtiVE Brooklyn’s For the Artist! Residency program and was a finalist for the 24 Hour Play Festival’s 2024 Nationals. 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 as a part of The Brick’s 2024 ?!: New Works Festival. Mack performs with ARCOS Dance, most recently as a part of Ether Dust, a movement tour through rural West Texas. They co-directed ARCOS’s In the Ether set at the 2021 American Dance Festival. 

Mack studied at UT Austin in their BFA Dance Program, under the direction of Charles O. Anderson.  They are a certified Dance Educator and Teaching Artist for the National Dance Institute.