Mack Lawrence (they/them) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, dancer, and playwright from Austin, TX, currently living in Brooklyn. As a trans playwright and a sixth-generation Austinite, their work tells queer stories with a southern voice. They write about trans characters’ unique capabilities, weird aversions, silly desires—rather than writing them into roles of quasi-representation. They are charmed by the radical politic of allowing a queer person to inhabit a fictional arc that has both everything and nothing to do with their orientations, especially within chosen communities in the deep South. Mack performs with ARCOS Dance, most recently as a part of Ether Dust, a movement tour through rural West Texas. They also co-directed ARCOS’s In the Ether set at the 2021 American Dance Festival. Since moving to Brooklyn, Mack has been a part of MOtiVE Brooklyn’s For the Artist! Residency program. Mack is currently the director of their ongoing project DINNER, a devised multimodal dance theater melodrama about a group of long-time queer friends coming together at a dinner party reckoning with the loss (read: the ghosting) of their leader, Jo. 

Mack graduated with honors from the UT Austin BFA Dance Program, under the direction of Charles O. Anderson. They are a certified Dance Educator and Teaching Artist for the National Dance Institute.