Written By Mack Lawrence
Directed By Maya Quetzali Gonazalez
Waco Boy Club
Art Illustration By Jerome Allen-Smith.
Tickets at $25
Cosmo, Strider, and Phantom are chicken salad aficionados, childhood (more than?) friends, and gay ghost conjurors—but mostly, they are all that each other's got. The relationships of these three warp in the heat of a Texas garage in Waco Boy Club, a part-seance, part-two-step, coming-of-age tale that asks: how do I see myself if all I see is you?
Thursday, November 19, 2026 - 7:00PM
Friday, November 20, 2026 - 7:00PM
Saturday, November 21, 2026 - 2:00PM & 7:00PM
Runtime: 90 min (No Intermission)
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 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. 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 received their BFA in Dance from UT Austin. They are an MFA in Playwriting candidate at UC San Diego. macklawmacklaw.com
Maya Quetzali Gonzalez (she/her) is a Texas-grown, Brooklyn-based artist. She has developed, directed, and choreographed work at La MaMa, SheNYC, OOB Festival, The Tank, Judson Arts, and The Brick. Maya most recently choreographed Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure at the Bushwick Starr. She is an Associate Member of SDC, a board member of IndieSpace, and a 2026 Access. Movement. Play. (AMP) Residency Artist at Movement Research. As an associate/assistant, she has worked at Playwrights, Signature, MCC, Roundabout, and on Broadway. Maya has been a FORGE Fellow, a member of Roundabout Directors Group, and an artist at UCLA’s’ Dancing Disability Lab. She is also a reproductive justice organizer. BFA: NYU. mayaquetzali.com (Photo By Lauren Eliot)
Our Creative Team
Stage Manager: Campbell Anidjar*
Production Manager and Technical Director: Dmitri Barcomi
Casting Director: Peter Dunn
Scenic and Props Designer: Gaya Chaterjee
Costume Designer: Hahnji Jang
Sound Designer: Ryan Gamblin
Lighting Designer: Maryam Sweirki
Dramaturg: Khristián Méndez Aguirre
* Denotes Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
National Queer Theater would like to thank our generous funders who support our programming and general operations: A.R.T./NY, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Find Your Light Foundation, Civis Foundation, David Geffen Foundation, Ford Foundation, Gilead Foundation, Hilda D. Glenn Fund of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Distracted Globe Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Stonewall Community Foundation.