Margot Bordelon is a New York based director who specializes in new work and has a penchant for feminist comedies.

Recent highlights include: Data by Matthew Libby at Arena Stage; John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower at The Huntington (Elliot Norton nomination for Outstanding Director); POTUS by Selina Fillinger at Arena Stage (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Director); The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini at Denver Center (Henry Award Winner for Outstanding Director); The Brightest Thing in the World by Leah Nanako Winkler at Yale Rep; peerless by Jiehae Park at Primary Stages; …what the end will be by Mansa Ra at Roundabout Theatre Company (NYT's Critic's pick); Dance Nation by Clare Barron at The Wilma; Wives by Jaclyn Backhaus at Playwrights Horizons; Something Clean by Selina Fillinger at Roundabout Underground (NYT's Critic's pick); Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-Greenberg at the Vineyard and Actor’s Theater of Louisville; Eddie and Dave by Amy Staats at Atlantic Theater Company; Plot Points in Our Sexual Development by Miranda Rose Hall at LCT3; Wilder Gone by Angela Hanks for Clubbed Thumb (NYT's Critic's pick).

In New York, her work has been seen at Ars Nova, Atlantic Theatre, The Bushwick Starr, Cherry Lane, Dodo, Ensemble Studio Theater, Juilliard, The Lark, Ma-Yi, Manhattan Theatre Club, Mercury Store, NYTW, P73, Playwrights Horizons, Playwrights Realm, Premieres NYC, Primary Stages, The Public, Rattlestick, Roundabout, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Target Margin, and Theater Masters, among others. Regionally, she’s developed work and/or directed productions at ACT Theatre Seattle, Alliance Theatre, American Theater Company, Berkeley Rep, The Geffen Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Miami New Drama, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Perry Mansfield, Play Penn, Playwrights’ Center, Portland Center Stage, Roundhouse Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theater, Steppenwolf, 12 Bridges, Two Rivers Theater, The Wilma, Yale Repertory Theater, and Woolly Mammoth. She is currently commissioned at Roundhouse Theater.

Margot moved east after spending six years in Chicago working as a director, writer and performer. She is a founding member of Theatre Seven of Chicago, where she conceived and directed We Live Here; Lies & Liars; and Yes, This Really Happened to Me (all with Cassy Sanders). She spent four seasons working on the artistic staff of Lookingglass Theatre. In Chicago she also worked for Collaboraction, Timeline, Pavement Group, Live Bait, Around the Coyote, Hell in a Handbag, and Steppenwolf Theatre where she assistant directed for both Tina Landau and Austin Pendleton. She spent three years as a storyteller for 2nd Story, and her autobiographical work has been seen numerous times on the Victory Garden’s stage, including her one-woman show You Are Here.

Margot originally hails from Seattle where she worked for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space, University of Washington PATP, Live Girls! and Double Shot Productions. She is a proud graduate of Cornish College of the Arts where she received her BFA in Theater with an emphasis in Original Work, and the Yale School of Drama where she received an MFA in Directing.

Margot can be reached through her agent Michael Finkle, William Morris Endeavor, 11 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10019; MFinkle@wmeentertainment.com; 212.903.1144