Rachel Mars

Rachel Mars is a writer and performer. Her shows combine theatre, comedy, storytelling and live art practices. She was on the first Writers Lab UK and Ireland in 2021, and a finalist on 4Stories 2022. She has won a Total Theatre Award, the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award and is often funded by Arts Council England. She is currently co-writing her first musical for Home Theatre, Manchester. Her first TV comedy/drama was optioned by Hillbilly Films and a podcast adaptation of her theatre show ‘You Sexts Are Shit’ is in development. She was on the Royal Court Playwrighting Course in 2021. In the past her work has seen her inviting children to smash up her dad’s bad pottery with hammers, learning to play Roller Derby and unearthing historical sex letters. She has performed all over the UK and internationally including at the Barbican, South Bank Centre and festivals in Austin, Seattle, Melbourne and Brisbane. She is committed to representations and explorations of queer female identity, using theatre and comedy as tools for provoking new arenas of empathy and understanding. Rachel is an artist fellow of Birkbeck University’s Centre for Contemporary Theatre.

Praise for Rachel’s work

“A triumphant show dripping with uninhibited desire.” The Guardian on YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT

“Magnificent, angry, slyly funny and necessary.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian on ROLLER

“Immensely charismatic, very funny and artfully crafted with the ear of a poet.” NPR, Boston on OUR CARNAL HEARTS