Rachel Mars
Theatre Maker | 2018 Bursary
Rachel spent a week work-shopping her new project FORGE at the Royal Exchange in Manchester. The project brought together technicians, lighting and sound designers, and metal workers to interrogate the politics of memorial.
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Since receiving the bursary…
Rachel Mars is a writer and performer based in the UK. She works at the cross-over of performance art and theatre, interrogating the possibilities of live assembly; female, Jewish and Queer identities and their intersections; and the ways cultural and political constucts affect everyday human behaviours.
Her recent performance work includes: FORGE, a durational metalwork installation exploring memorial inheritance and historical replica; Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters, an archive of sex and desire; Our Carnal Hearts, a choral dissection of envy; Roller, with Mars.tarrab, a fight show about female aggression and Roller Derby, and STORY #1/#3, an ongoing collaboration with Greg Wohead on radical narrative. She has also won a Total Theatre Award and the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. For screen, she is currently on the TV Foundation New Writers Collective, the Orchard Project Episodic Lab and was a participant on the inaugural UK and Ireland Writers Lab. She is developing a feature and TV projects.
She has performed all over the UK and internationally, including recently at Under The Radar in NYC, UMS Michigan, Barbican London, Brisbane International Festival, Brighton International Festival, Fusebox Festival Austin and On The Boards in Seattle.