Margot Carmody

A Bit About Me

Margot Carmody is a Latinx playwright born and raised in Queens, New York.

Margot holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and earned a B.A. from New York University with a minor in Creative Writing and Poetry. Additional 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. Margot has been taught by Pulitzer Prize author Mitchell S. Jackson, Four Quartets Prize winner John Murillo, and Emmy Award-winning writer Dan Wilcox, and has collaborated with veteran TV and Broadway actors on plays Hi Bi and Olvidame.

​Margot’s plays have been produced in New York City at Dixon Place Theater, Theater for the New City, and the People’s Improv Theater. Hi Bi, a queer tragicomedy, gained Margot recognition in a PLAYBILL article as an LGBTQIA+ artist to watch. Olvidame, received a national playwriting award from the Kennedy Center in the category of Hip-Hop Theater and was recognized for distinguished achievement in Latinx playwriting. Olvidame has since continued its development at the New Harmony Writers Residency, which was followed by a staged reading at the Obie Award Winning Ensemble Studio theater produced by the Latinx Playwrights Circle. The Other Girl Next Door, a feature screenplay, was a second-rounder (top 20%) at the Austin Film Festival chosen out of 14,648 scripts entered.

As an educator, Margot has taught writing science fiction for TV at Carnegie Mellon University, fostering an inclusive classroom environment through a universal design for learning. Margot’s approach enabled first-time creative writers to discover an enjoyable writing process, resulting in the production of nearly 150 pages of work in a single semester. This included an original pilot, weekly writing assignments, in-class exercises, and a collaborative project in which students worked together as a writers’ room to create a spec episode of an existing TV show. Margot’s unique bottom-up teaching method mirrors the reverse engineering of scientific problems.

As a script consultant and reader, Margot helped to launch the first screenwriting festival for Stonestreet Studios, where Margot worked with the writer and the studio on revision notes before going into production. Additionally, Margot has been a script reader for notable fellowships like the Eugene O’Neil Playwrights Conference and the Live and in Color Musical Theater submissions.

Margot is a proud member of the WGAE Indie Film Caucus, Dramatist Guild, and the Latinx Playwrights Circle.