Rachel Mars is a London-based multi award-winning writer/performer with a background in theatre, live art, and comedy. She grew up as the only gay in a British/Jewish family that attempted to balance English propriety with Yiddish volume. She privileges queer, female stories and meticulous construction.

PLAYS/MUSICALS
BLOOD PLAY was developed at the Royal Court on their intro to playwrighting course. It was a semi-finalist for the Women’s Playwriting Prize (UK) and Jewish Plays Project (US).
OVER THE HILL won the T1 commission at HOME Manchester.

PERFORMANCE
Her recent shows have included a three-day metal work installation about memorial and monument, (FORGE), a choral celebration of envy (Our Carnal Hearts) and a Queer history of filthy sex communication (Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters). She has toured her work at International Theatre Festivals in Europe, the US and Australia including Edinburgh, Under The Radar (NY), On the Boards (Seattle), ART (Boston) and Fusebox (Austin).

SCREEN
UK and Ireland Writer’s Lab in 2021, shortlisted for the Channel4/Blacklight 4Stories 2022, Royal Court x Sister Pictures writing scheme 2023.

AWARDS
Total Theatre Award and The Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, UK

She has developed work on residencies at The Orchard Project and Asylum Arts (US), Cove Park (UK).
She has taught theatre workshops at Universities including Oxford, Harvard, UCLA Riverside and Middlebury College, and mentored artists on theatre-making schemes across the UK.