You don't know Jack, but you should.
By Bobby Hawthorne In early March, 2020, Jack Kyser was living in Brooklyn, New York, with his girlfriend at the time, and they were working remotely because everything was shut down except for the few places that sold Advil and toilet tissue. Somehow, in arguably the cultural capital of the world, making movies and staging plays and so forth wasn’t deemed “essential,” so Jack and his girlfriend at the time were stuck in their Brooklyn apartment, wondering how long the shutdown would last and if they’d survive it, individually or as a couple. As a couple, they didn’t, even though they managed to escape for three months or so to Charlottesville, Virginia, where her parents lived. They split that summer. The girlfriend at that time returned to New York, and Jack drove back to Austin to commiserate with his mother, who kept his old bedroom neat and spiffy and ready to go. ••• Jack grew up in Austin. He attended Casis, O. Henry and Austin High, where he achieved almos