MIRAGE AUTO DEPOT / PROJECTS
WACO BOY CLUB
by Mack Lawrence
Photo 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.
World Premiere National Queer Theater Fall 2026
Previously 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
Photo 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.
World Premiere National Queer Theater Fall 2026
Previously 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 Lawrence
Photo by Jose Miranda
Photo by Jose Miranda
What 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, Spring 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
Presented in The Brick Theater’s ‽ New Works Festival, Brooklyn, Spring 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
THE COLLECTIVE WOMB
by Alexandra Neuman
Photo by Seth Caplan
The Collective Womb is a matriarchal creation story reframing abortion as an ecological redistribution of life-force. Staged on a large mound of dirt, the performance celebrates the macro-scale creative power of our planet and the micro-scale creative power of each individual womb. This existential power has long been a threat to patriarchal control, leaving fertile soils and reproductive bodies subject to similar forms of labor exploitation and micromanagement. In contrast to the long-standing image of a disembodied father-god moralizing human beings from the sky, the mother-goddess offers an alternative image of a terrestrial deity that is simultaneously nurturing, erotic, and deadly. This project taps into a queer mythological realm in which abortion is recognized as a natural part of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. It is in this space of joyful communal consciousness-raising that the boundaries between fiction and reality can be blurred, and a matriarchal worldview can slip into existence.
Presented by 601 Art Space y en El Jardin del Paraiso, New York, Summer 2024
The “inaccessible becomes easy to appreciate and uniquely memorable through its engagement of all the senses“ — Rhea Nayyar, HYPERALLERGIC
The Collective Womb is a matriarchal creation story reframing abortion as an ecological redistribution of life-force. Staged on a large mound of dirt, the performance celebrates the macro-scale creative power of our planet and the micro-scale creative power of each individual womb. This existential power has long been a threat to patriarchal control, leaving fertile soils and reproductive bodies subject to similar forms of labor exploitation and micromanagement. In contrast to the long-standing image of a disembodied father-god moralizing human beings from the sky, the mother-goddess offers an alternative image of a terrestrial deity that is simultaneously nurturing, erotic, and deadly. This project taps into a queer mythological realm in which abortion is recognized as a natural part of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. It is in this space of joyful communal consciousness-raising that the boundaries between fiction and reality can be blurred, and a matriarchal worldview can slip into existence.
Presented by 601 Art Space y en El Jardin del Paraiso, New York, Summer 2024
The “inaccessible becomes easy to appreciate and uniquely memorable through its engagement of all the senses“ — Rhea Nayyar, HYPERALLERGIC
Written and co-directed by Alexandra Neuman
Movement direction and music by Raychel Ceciro
Stage direction and music by Logan gabrielle Schulman
CO2 + H20→H2CO3
by Raychel Ceciro
Photo by Jesse Clark
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
W.H.T.D.T.B.W.C.D.A.E.
by Raychel Ceciro and Logan gabrielle Schulman
Photo by Owen Burnham
We Have To Do This Before We Can Do Anything Else is an exorcism via hyper-collage: a movement score, live musical composition, poem, improvised digital puppetry, realtime mo-cap installation, and ultiamtely an offering of a recipe for explosion. WHTDTBWCDAE looks to deep time and the formation of earth out of lava-fueled chaos, and the subsequent billion-years processes of cooling, land formation, breaking of pangea, further lava, further cooling, mass extinction, and finally the growth of microgreen vegetation which created not only the conditions for macro-scale life on earth, but which also represents the symbiotic potentiality of organisms pre-, mid-, and post-rupture.
“breathaking.” “a multidisciplinary feat and expression of avant garde art” –Rush Johnston, Review in The Dance Enthusiast
We Have To Do This Before We Can Do Anything Else is an exorcism via hyper-collage: a movement score, live musical composition, poem, improvised digital puppetry, realtime mo-cap installation, and ultiamtely an offering of a recipe for explosion. WHTDTBWCDAE looks to deep time and the formation of earth out of lava-fueled chaos, and the subsequent billion-years processes of cooling, land formation, breaking of pangea, further lava, further cooling, mass extinction, and finally the growth of microgreen vegetation which created not only the conditions for macro-scale life on earth, but which also represents the symbiotic potentiality of organisms pre-, mid-, and post-rupture.
“breathaking.” “a multidisciplinary feat and expression of avant garde art” –Rush Johnston, Review in The Dance Enthusiast
Presented by THAT SHOW, Index Space, NYC 2024
Choreographed, written, and performed by Raychel Ceciro, with Direction and Technical Design by Logan gabrielle Schulman, and danced by Justine Florence