Margot Carmody
Margot creates theater that entertains American audiences in wildly un-American ways, delivering the spectacle of a Netflix binge where each scene feels like its own binge-worthy episode. Margot’s work blends poetry, music, and movement to create cinematic storytelling for live audiences, often exploring social justice, identity, queerness, and desire.
A Latinx playwright and screenwriter born and raised in Queens, New York, Margot holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. from New York University, with a minor in Creative Writing and Poetry. Margot’s training includes the Stella Adler Studio, Atlantic Acting School, Second City Conservatory, Upright Citizens Brigade, The People’s Improv Theater, ESPA/Primary Stages, and Button Poetry with Neil Hilborn, shaping a bold, humorous, and precise voice.
Margot’s full-length play Olvídame won the Kennedy Center Award for Hip-Hop Theater and received Distinguished Achievement in Latinx Playwriting. The play also earned the 2025 New Harmony Writers Residency and a staged reading with Latinx Playwrights Circle at Ensemble Studio Theatre, with upcoming presentations at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and IATI Theater’s Cimientos 2026.
Hi Bi, Margot’s tragicomedy, premiered at Dixon Place Theater’s HOT! Queer Festival with a cast of veteran television actors. The play follows two bisexual strangers who meet outside a sex club on New Year’s Eve in New York, sparking a wild, funny, and deeply vulnerable exploration of hookups, heartbreaks, and real love. Following the debut, Playbill named Margot an LGBTQIA+ artist to watch during Pride Plays Festival 2020, produced by Michael Urie, after featuring a monologue from the play.
As a screenwriter, Margot’s animated comedy pilot Super Small Town (2025) and romantic comedy The Other Girl Next Door (2021) were second-rounders at the Austin Film Festival. Margot is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Latinx Playwrights Circle, and WGAE Indie Film Caucus.
As a lifelong Queens resident, Margot is thrilled to join the community at Woodward and will be working on revisions of full-length plays, Olvidame, Hi Bi, and an untitled newwork, as well as revisions for several screenplay projects.