Mario (Mars) Wolfe

Mario (Mars) Wolfe

Mario (Mars) Wolfe is a genderqueer playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Mars is currently a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow. Their plays – BUS 74, TURNT THE SCREW, and CLICK FATE – have been performed at Victory Gardens, Studio@620, and NoMads Art Collective. Mars was recently featured in the ArciTEXT Festival (GODDESS, FORBID), Activate: Midwest Festival (1st IMANI 22nd SIX), and New Colony's Uncharted...
Mario (Mars) Wolfe is a genderqueer playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Mars is currently a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow. Their plays – BUS 74, TURNT THE SCREW, and CLICK FATE – have been performed at Victory Gardens, Studio@620, and NoMads Art Collective. Mars was recently featured in the ArciTEXT Festival (GODDESS, FORBID), Activate: Midwest Festival (1st IMANI 22nd SIX), and New Colony's Uncharted Festival (BERTHA VAN ATION 3.0). Mars's wonderland-quarantine play, 11th HOUR ADVENTURES, is currently accessible on PlayatHome.org. WISH I COULD P. (Pay it No Mind) is available to stream, as a part of All Arts's feature on The Fire This Time Festival.

Curator: de-cypher2020.com

Plays

  • 1st Imani 22nd Six by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6–10
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, faith-based, musical, political
    On the precipice of the 2008 Presidential election, a young family in New Jersey must dip-n-dodge the rain puddles of a changing world. "Jesus phones", monopoly money, and impending debt clutter the family's bandwidth, which ultimately asks Imani to change her service and re-write the biblical teaching Proverbs 22:6 (KJV).
  • Wish I Could P. (Pay it no mind) by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, romantic comedy, verse
    Under a streetlamp on a New York City night, Ariel and Jamil face difficult news about their future, while Marsha P. Johnson shepherds the lost back home. WISH I COULD P. is the first play in Mars's WHO RANG THE BELL?! play series, which reimagines fairytales and Disney folklore through the eyes of transgender/gender variant protagonists.
  • 11th Hour Adventures by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Cast: 
    5–12
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    Genre: adventure, dark comedy + 7 more
    Genre: adventure, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, movement/physical, radio drama, science fiction, verse
    In a world where there's nowhere to go but Disney UP, Tyme saves Alice's social life inside the Looking Glass. 11TH HOUR ADVENTURES is the second play in Mars's WHO RANG THE BELL?! series, which reimagines fairytales and Disney folklore through the eyes of transgender/gender variant protagonists.
  • STBY, Ms. Brustein by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Cast: 
    7–9
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, experimental, opera, period
    The past x present mingle in the Metropolitan Opera’s greenroom, on the eve of the Lorraine Hansberry benefit. As the artists of the present dry-tech their celebration, the displaced spirits of San Juan Hill relive their final days on the Upper West Side. When the haunts of the past become too close for confrontation, the artists must quit rehearsing and facilitate the lost souls’ transition to the afterlife.
  • RayQuan's Progress by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Cast: 
    6–12
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 8 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, movement/physical, musical, opera, verse
    RayQuan may or may not have sold his soul to the Devil, in prada. Now, the guards at Front Desk, LLC have RayQuan's fate in their hands. As the budding rap star approaches the doors of Fame and Obscurity, the guards must determine if his progress on earth warrants him access into Room #1 or #2. Underground rap serves as Exhibit A in the mock trial, but will it be enough evidence to save RayQuan's life...
    RayQuan may or may not have sold his soul to the Devil, in prada. Now, the guards at Front Desk, LLC have RayQuan's fate in their hands. As the budding rap star approaches the doors of Fame and Obscurity, the guards must determine if his progress on earth warrants him access into Room #1 or #2. Underground rap serves as Exhibit A in the mock trial, but will it be enough evidence to save RayQuan's life and secure his place in the Hall of Fame?
  • Turnt the Screw; or a trigger warning by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Cast: 
    5–7
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, faith-based, mystery/thriller, radio drama
    Myles and Flora navigate the #MeToo movement on the terrains of their college campus and question: what happens when the voices in our heads become the ones we hear out loud? Inspired by Henry James' 19th century novella, THE TURN OF THE SCREW. Turnt the Screw; or a trigger warning meditates on mental illness, self-care, and psychotherapy.
  • Click Fate by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale
    Justin Timberlake underscores the god Apollo’s bedtime tale.
  • Goddess, Forbid by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3–5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, faith-based, fantasy, romantic comedy
    The goddess of love attempts to rewrite the wrongs of the Christian bible. Meanwhile, Aiden & Evan prepare for a special night in the bedroom.
  • Bertha Van Ation 3.0 (birth-of-a-nation 3 point-oh) by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Cast: 
    10–20
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 12 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, faith-based, fantasy, immersive, movement/physical, musical, political, satire, science fiction, verse
    Mars, 3005. Oprah Shy X (Shy) and Oprah Shy Y (O)
    attempt to recall the story of their escape from incarceration
    and enslavement. Their brother (Cole) steers the whip
    to freedom, using 808 to guide the Odyssey. Shy and O find
    their task to be a tall order when the memories of the
    Privilege People and their genetic experiments resurface.
    Scientists, Sanitation Workers,...
    Mars, 3005. Oprah Shy X (Shy) and Oprah Shy Y (O)
    attempt to recall the story of their escape from incarceration
    and enslavement. Their brother (Cole) steers the whip
    to freedom, using 808 to guide the Odyssey. Shy and O find
    their task to be a tall order when the memories of the
    Privilege People and their genetic experiments resurface.
    Scientists, Sanitation Workers, and a Nurse join the siblings
    on their quest for truth within recycled myths, parables, and
    trap beats.
  • Party Goin On: Live by Mario (Mars) Wolfe
    Cast: 
    5–15
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 13 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, holiday, immersive, melodrama, movement/physical, musical, pageant, parody/spoof, political, romantic comedy, satire
    PARTY GOIN ON: LIVE is an immersive experience that walks its
    participants through an exhibition of millennial kultr. A culture that
    refreshes and updates as quickly as it […buffering], one that drives
    away after four minutes of waiting.

    Portlandia meets Insecure at a bar and they discuss Brecht, while that new
    J. Cole bumps in the background.