Theatre artist C.C. Lawrence offers skillsets adapted from multi-faceted specializations, performance methods, and pedagogical theory to utilize in and outside of dramatic spaces. Her ideology adapts paratheatrical experiences to sharpen clients’ neurological functioning and improve their abilities in numerous areas of work and personal life. Forging an interdisciplinary path with a career outlook toward drama therapy research and practice, she writes (and occasionally performs) for local theatres, festivals, hospitals, and other sectors seeking to incorporate theatricality as a tool for personal and professional development. Her network is constantly expanding to meet specific needs through effective collaboration. She stays active in the community art scene - writing, directing, and performing fringe plays that swelter from West Texas esotericism.

After obtaining an A.A. in Sociology, C.C. Lawrence worked several years as a graphic designer and was a volunteer for a rape crisis center. Then she became a "trad-wife" - full STOP. Now she's divorced and going back to college in her mid-thirties. C.C. is a senior at Texas Tech University - pursuing her B.A. in Theatre Arts and her B.A. in Psychology, with a relentless drive to focus on integrating joy, pain, playwriting, dramaturgy, research, and community healing into the palatable, dynamic entertainment that Lubbock, TX needs.

Her work ethic and polymathic ability continue to provide opportunities for her to achieve the "higher purpose" she seeks from reamalgamating the arts and sciences, after a century of social compartmentalization. She is wholly grateful for every person in her life who has supported her on this path. She looks forward to a lifetime of building up her community through artistic expression and personal growth.

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She was nicknamed "The Traumaturg" for an elaborate, six-month devised production at TTU - The Ghost Project - which premiered in February 2025 and delved into human movement, fear, death, and inspiration that reinstates Artaud-esque contributions to art. As a playwright, she has had her work featured at Frontier Fest 2024, Plays on Tap, First Friday Art Trail, and The EDGE Theatre. She has been published in The Harbinger: A Journal of Art & Literature, and in programs and online publications for Texas Tech University and The EDGE Theatre. In summer 2024, C.C. wrote, designed, directed, and acted with her six-year-old daughter in a short play titled, Mommy-Bot: To Be Performed with Your Child, at the First Friday Art Trail in Lubbock, Texas. Coincidentally, this was also her first engagement with artivism - having been a part of the show that was under attack by Christian Nationalists. Immediately following completion of that project, C.C. attended The Marfa Intensive – a rigorous, two-week-long devised theatre intensive in Marfa, Texas involving students from Texas Tech University and Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Both experiences proved to be pivotal in deciding her future as an integrative and complex artist focused on how the human psyche benefits from radical art exchange. She assisted director, David Priebe, and Sean Allen Jones with Drama Classes for Individuals in Recovery in Fall 2024; then she wrote, acted in, and served as dramaturg for a forum theatre show (following Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed) using the prompts devised by those classes. The Recovery Play on the EDGE, premiered in January 2025. It was received very well by the community, including a news broadcast and an unprecedented sold-out crowd on the final performance night.
In 2026, she continues her work with The EDGE Theatre as an instructor, writer, and director. She graduates in May.

- "She's not the dramaturg, she's the traumaturg!" (nickname given to me by an actor after my work on The Recovery Play on the EDGE and during The Ghost Project).