Marjorie Muller writes plays about bodies.

Marjorie's work has appeared at Urbanite Theatre, The Women’s Theatre Festival, Avalanche Theatre, and Northwestern University (among others). Marjorie is an alum of the acting program at the Theatre School at DePaul, Jackalope Theatre Playwright’s Lab, New Coordinates’ Writers Room, and Under Construction 3 at The Road Theatre.

She is currently developing a new play centered around continued reproductive injustice in the United States tentatively titled, ACOMMA: Adult Children of Mandatory Mothers Anonymous.

Marjorie currently resides in Chicago with her guitar, Leona, and a powder blue citation typewriter. In her free time, she indulges her voracious obsession with Led Zeppelin and analyzes strategy on Survivor.

Artistic Statement

I am learning that opposite things can exist at once. Desires, answers, actions. My understanding of the body is one of those things: it is perfect, it is messy.

My work seeks to explore how the messy, perfect body interacts with the world. And how that world attacks it, feeds on it, adores it. How do humans claim autonomy on their body when the body is inherently political? This question is something I tripped into. After writing three full-length plays, I noticed how body was central to each one of them. In littlespace, or the daddy play the protagonist demands a doctor take her pain seriously; in Regular an addict tries to assimilate (or disappear) in a new town; in The Iconoclasts a young artist struggles to gain control of her hands.

It takes courage to have a body. I write plays about people trying to live that courage and harness their bodily power in a society that tries to squelch it.

Also, there’s music. There’s lots of music.