Marge is a writer, performer, and painter.
(she / her)
Upcoming Projects
The Annual Commutator Collective Purim Spiel
March 23rd, 2024 (playwright)
March 24th, 2024 (flash-painting performance)
Detective Chunk, The Multiverse, and Me
June 27-30, 2024 (playwright)
TBD (screenwriter, actor)
Who is this, anyway?
Marge Jorts Buckley grew up in Virginia, graduated from Boston's Emerson College in 2017 with a degree in Acting, and moved to Minneapolis in 2019. Marge is a co-founder of experimental theatre and arts group Commutator Collective, for which she currently serves as the Playwright-in-Residence. She is a frequent collaborator with Artists in Conversation.
Marge started showing and selling her paintings in 2022 with the help of her mentor, Hilary Greenstein. Her work has been shown in such places as North Suburban Arts and the Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center in Minnesota, Rountree Gallery in Wisconsin, and in various domestic locations. She paints out of her DIY basement studio.
Marge Jorts Buckley lives in Minneapolis, MN. This is occupied Dakota land.
Her plays, including Grainville Cereals Inc, The Earth Room, Phylloxera!, and Anchortown, have been performed in Boston, Minneapolis, and New York City.
Look how happy she is. Isn’t that nice?
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