MIRAGE AUTO DEPOT / PROJECTS
WACO BOY CLUB
by Mack Lawrence
In a garage in Waco, TX, three friends tete-a-tete with ghosts, gender, and guilty pleasures. Over Ouija board confessionals and chicken salad sandwiches, Waco Boy Club follows the looping and longing dialogue of Strider, Cosmo, and Phantom, three best friends doing their best to love each other well. Across a somewhat nonlinear journey, it is a play with a deep well of magical realism, meditating on unrequited love, our human need for community, and the importance of safety and silliness when you're trans and living in the South.
Presented in Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective’s Summer Rooftop Series, Brooklyn, 2024 ; Developmental reading, The Drama League Studio, Winter 2024
Performed by Jess Barbagallo, Tyler Bey, Sagan Chen, and Tanya/Tamás Marquardt
Directed by Logan gabrielle Schulman
In a garage in Waco, TX, three friends tete-a-tete with ghosts, gender, and guilty pleasures. Over Ouija board confessionals and chicken salad sandwiches, Waco Boy Club follows the looping and longing dialogue of Strider, Cosmo, and Phantom, three best friends doing their best to love each other well. Across a somewhat nonlinear journey, it is a play with a deep well of magical realism, meditating on unrequited love, our human need for community, and the importance of safety and silliness when you're trans and living in the South.
Presented in Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective’s Summer Rooftop Series, Brooklyn, 2024 ; Developmental reading, The Drama League Studio, Winter 2024
Performed by Jess Barbagallo, Tyler Bey, Sagan Chen, and Tanya/Tamás Marquardt
Directed by Logan gabrielle Schulman
DINNER
by Mack LawrenceWhat the fuck happened to Jo, and can you see this growth in the back of my throat? Four friends try to have a dinner party after Jo up and ghosted the squad. A queer multimodal devised performance. *Contains gluten. DINNER is a radical, ensemble-driven, archive-based, tragicomedy. Devised by a community of performer-friends, some new, some old, DINNER documents, examines, and stages the hyper-modern experience of dear, queer friendships, and confronts the natural foil of these: the non-mutual dissolution of significant platonic relationships (read: heinous one-sided friend break-ups).
Presented in The Brick Theater’s ‽ New Works Festival, Brooklyn, 2024
Devised by Raychel Ceciro, Mack Lawrence, Logan gabrielle Schulman, Murphy Severtson, Lulu West, and Kayla White
Co-directed by Logan gabrielle Schulman and Mack Lawrence
CO2 + H20→H2CO3
by Raychel Ceciro
CO2 + H2O is a multi-media movement performance exploring the hollowing effects of patriarchal violence on climate change and the human body, studying the profoundly similar effects of trauma at the chemical and molecular levels found in both deteriorating coral ecosystems and the body in trauma. Devised through movement, text, organic chemistry, and a little bit of clown, the piece is a reframing and re-presentation of trauma through a lens of kinship with the natural world. The performance concludes with a guided meditation and grounding exercise utilizing calcium carbonate seashells as a grounding tool to help us through the times when our environments feel unstable.
Presented in Sarasota Contemporary Dance’s Studio Performance Series, Sarasota, 2022
Co-choreographed, written, and performed by Raychel Ceciro and Eugenia Titterington