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Rachel Mars

Rachel Mars

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At The Orchard Project: 2015 · 2016 · 2024 · 2026

About

Rachel Mars is a writer, performer and script editor, specialising in genre-smashing queer and feminist stories with smarts. She is an established and respected voice in the alternative performance scene in the UK.

For TV: she is a TV Foundation/All 3 Media New Writers Collective member 2025, and was a participant on the inaugural UK and Ireland Writers Lab. She is currently working on multiple projects across drama, sitcom and feature.

For Stage: Her play BLOOD PLAY was developed at the O’Neill Theater Center Playwrights Conference 2024 and is under commission at Soho Theatre, London. Her recent performance work includes: FORGE, a durational metalwork installation exploring memorial inheritance and historical replica; YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT: OLDER BETTER LETTERS, a show about writing, sex and desire; OUR CARNAL HEARTS, a choral dissection of envy (developed at the Orchard Project); ROLLER, with Mars.tarrab, a fight show about female aggression and Roller Derby. For stage she has won a Total Theatre Award and the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, Her work has been performed all over the UK and internationally, including recently at Under The Radar in NYC, The Barbican London, Brisbane International Festival, Brighton International Festival, Fusebox Festival Austin and On The Boards in Seattle.

At The Orchard Project

  1. 2026
    Performance Lab

    Rachel Mars

  2. 2024
    Episodic Lab

    Eugene

    A small-town teenager with dreams of becoming an actor detours into Eugene, Oregon, to find her missing first love—and instead discovers an alternative all-female society where she grapples with the explosive intersections of activism, idealism, sex and violence.

  3. 2016
    Performance Lab

    Story #2

    with Rachel Mars/Greg Wohead

  4. 2015

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