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’s art explores the weird, colorful, and messy nature of the world around her. She uses dramatic colors and surreal compositions as tools of optimism which assert that systems can be transformed in radical ways.