Margot Bordelon is a New York based director who specializes in new work and has an affinity for feminist comedies.
Recent highlights include: English Only at Miami New Drama, Mother Play at Studio Theatre, Data at Arena Stage; POTUS at Arena Stage (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Director); The Lehman Trilogy at Denver Center (Henry Award Winner for Outstanding Director); The Brightest Thing in the World at Yale Rep; peerless at Primary Stages; …what the end will be at Roundabout Theatre Company (NYT's Critic's pick); Wives at Playwrights Horizons; Something Clean at Roundabout Underground (NYT's Critic's pick); Do You Feel Anger? at the Vineyard; Eddie and Dave at Atlantic Theater Company; Plot Points in Our Sexual Development at LCT3; Wilder Gone 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, The Hearth, 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, 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 by Roundhouse Theater, Studio Theatre, and is the Director-in-Residence at Rattlestick 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. 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 Everett, Washington. 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