Margot Carmody

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Margot is a Latinx playwright and screenwriter from Queens, New York, creating cinematic theater that blends poetry, music, and movement to explore identity, queerness, desire, and social justice. Margot's work delivers binge-worthy storytelling for live audiences—bold, funny, and emotionally precise.

Margot's full-length play Olvídame won the Kennedy Center Award for Hip-Hop Theater, received Distinguished Achievement in Latinx Playwriting, and was a Terrence McNally New Works Incubator Semi-Finalist. The play was developed at the New Harmony Writers Residency and presented with Latinx Playwrights Circle at Ensemble Studio Theatre, with upcoming workshops at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and IATI Theater (Cimientos).

Margot's play Hi Bi premiered at Dixon Place’s HOT! Queer Festival and led to Playbill naming Margot an LGBTQIA+ Artist to Watch during Pride Plays Festival. As a screenwriter, Margot's work has twice been a second-rounder at the Austin Film Festival in the comedy pilot and feature categories.

Margot holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and a BA from New York University with a minor in Creative Writing and Poetry. Margot is a Woodward Guest Resident (Winter/Spring 2026), a member of the Dramatists Guild, Latinx Playwrights Circle, and WGAE Indie Film Caucus, and serves on the New Harmony Alumni Connectivity Volunteer Committee and the NYU SPS Alumni Relations Committee.

Highlights

Margot's Animated Comedy Pilot "Super Small Town" was a second-rounder in the 2025 Austin Film Festival Script Competition.

Olvidame (Forget Me) is the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Hip Hop Theatre Creator Award and is recognized for Distinguished Achievement for the Kennedy Center’s Latinx Playwriting Award, and was a semi-finalist for the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator. The play had a staged reading produced by Latinx Playwrights Circle at Ensemble Studio Theater and will have a semi-staged workshop reading at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and a full reading at IATI Theater's Cimientos 2026 this summer.

Hi Bi debuted virtually early in the pandemic at Dixon Place Theater's HOT Queer Festival with a talented cast of well known television actors and received a Playbill write up as an LGBTQIA+ artist to watch. 

Margot's romantic comedy feature, "The Other Girl Next Door" was a second-rounder in the 2021 Austin Film Festival Script Competition. 

Margot  graduated from Carnegie Mellon's MFA Dramatic Writing Program in May 2025.