Marga Gomez is a comedian, writer, performer, and teaching artist from Harlem, New York.
30 Facts About Marga Gomez
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Marga Gomez has written and performed in thirteen solo plays which have been presented nationally and internationally.
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Marga Gomez's acting credits include Off-Broadway and national productions of The Vagina Monologues with Rita Moreno.
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Marga Gomez acted in season two of the Netflix series Sense8.
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At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Gomez pivoted to adapting and presenting her work for live streaming.
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Marga Gomez has been featured in online theater festivals from New York to San Diego, as well as a five-week virtual run for Brava, SF where she is an artist-in-residence.
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Marga Gomez is a GLAAD media award winner and recipient of the 2020 CCI Investing in Artists grant.
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Marga Gomez has created and performed a variety of solo shows inspired by her upbringing and family life.
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Marga Gomez was born and raised in New York where she lived on 169th street.
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Marga Gomez's father, Willy Chevalier, was a comedian from Cuba, while her mother, Margarita Estremera, was an exotic dancer from Puerto Rico.
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Marga Gomez attended a Catholic school for five years, then transferred to a public school, where she excelled in creative writing and humanities.
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Marga Gomez grew up in Harlem in the midst of the Latino entertainment scene of the 1960s.
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Marga Gomez later credited her parents for inspiring her unique comedic voice.
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Marga Gomez got her start in comedy, performing bits in her parents' variety shows before moving to San Francisco after college in 1979, at the age of 20 to pursue a creative career.
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Marga Gomez was part of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and was a founding member of the Latino comedy group Culture Clash, which was founded May 5,1984.
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Marga Gomez got her comedic start in the gay comedy clubs of San Francisco in the mid-1980s, including the Valencia Rose Cabaret.
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Memory Tricks, Latin Standards and Marga Gomez is Pretty, Witty and Gay all speak towards these attributes, among many others.
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In 2002, Marga Gomez co-wrote and co-starred with Carmelita Tropicana in Single Wet Female for a three-week sold-out engagement at New York's Performance Space 122 under the direction of David Schweizer.
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Marga Gomez has joined the casts of The Vagina Monologues several times, sharing the stage with Rita Moreno, Jobeth Williams, Barbara Rush and others.
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In 2015, Marga Gomez presented her solo show, Pound at Dixon Place in New York City.
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Marga Gomez has appeared on HBO's Comic Relief, Showtime's Latino Laugh Festival, Comedy Central's Out There and the PBS series In the Life.
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Marga Gomez's comedy recording, Hung Like a Fly, is available on Uproar Records.
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Marga Gomez is profiled in the 2003 award-winning documentary Laughing Matters along with Kate Clinton, Suzanne Westenhoefer and Karen Williams.
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Marga Gomez is featured in indie festival hits Rosa Negra, The D Word, Desi's Looking for a New Girl, and Fabulous.
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In 2022 Marga Gomez was awarded a United States Artists fellowship.
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Marga Gomez won a GLAAD award for Off-Off Broadway theater in 2004.
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Marga Gomez received nominations in 2006 for the Drama Desk Award and New York Outer Critics Circle Award while performing at the 47th Street Theater.
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Marga Gomez was nominated for the NCLR Bravo award for outstanding performance by a female in a variety or music series in 1996.
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Marga Gomez was one of eight playwrights to be commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum's Latino Theater Initiative as part of the 2005 Amor Eterno project.
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Marga Gomez is the recipient of Theater LA's 'Ovation Award' for her collaboration with Culture Clash at the Mark Taper Forum.