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Marga News

Links

Marga Makes The List With Chelsea Handler in the SF Chronicle

Fun Facts about Marga in Time Out NY

Marga in NY Daily News

Marga Interviewed by Mission Local

Marga in Scotland

Quotes

"4 STARS!... Gomez leaves the audience wanting more of that bravado" The List, United Kingdom

“Hysterical! Adore her!” Eve Ensler, author Vagina Monologues

“Gomez’s wickedly sharp comic timing and easy connection with the audience are as keen as ever” Rob Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle

“If film and television producers want to take more risks in their depiction of lesbian life they should go directly to the caustic musings of Marga Gomez.” Ned Martel, New York Times

“Gomez Beguiles” Time Out New York

“Top 5 Performances in Gay Theater” Ada Calhoun, New York Magazine

“Funny as hell…Give this woman a sitcom already!” Libby Molneaux, LA Weekly

“Amazing. She’s like a lesbian Lenny Bruce” Robin Williams

“She’s our Latina Lily Tomlin” Herbert Siquenza, Culture Clash

“A woman to watch … a comic marksman. The show is a giddy 90 minutes with the deliciously cheeky Ms. Gomez” Peter Marks, New York Times

“One of the most talented and hardest working comediennes in the business” Jerry Friedman ABC Radio

“It is with no hesitation that I would recommend your performance for any campus interested in embracing diversity and promoting tolerance; two ideals which I hold dear and you embody. And you are just so damn funny!!!" Jill E Morris Academic Events Program Coordinator, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

“When will the world wake up and worship Marga Gomez?” Barry Walters, Rolling Stone

“She pushes buttons, pushes the envelope, and pushes the boundaries of all conventional wisdom” Lisa Keen, The Washington Blade

Biography

Marga Gomez is a native New Yorker who makes San Francisco her home and identifies as a bicoastal Gemini. As the daughter of a Cuban comedian and Puerto Rican dancer Marga made her stage debut in New York at age 7 and was hooked ever since. Her long and colorful career includes achievements in comedy, theater, film and television. She tours nationally and internationally as one of America’s first openly Gay comics. Her awards include “Best Comedian 2009 and 2008 Reader’s Choice Award” from the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her college appearances landed her on the 2009 Campus Pride Hot List as one of their “top 25 LGBT Favorites.” Marga’s television credits include LOGO’s “Wisecracks” and “One Night Stand Up,” Comedy Central’s “Out There,” HBO’s “Comic Relief VI,” and Showtime’s “Latino Laugh Festival.”

Her comedy career is profiled on Here Network’s “Laughing Matter’s” (also available on DVD.) Marga Gomez is the author/performer of eight solo plays: "Long Island Iced Latina", "Los Big Names", A Line Around The Block, Memory Tricks, Marga Gomez is Pretty, Witty & Gay, Jaywalker, The Twelve Days of Cochina and "Proud and Bothered", which, along with her collaboration with Carmelita Tropicana on an erotic horror comedy Single Wet Female, have been produced nationally, internationally and in New York at The Public Theater, The 47th Street Theater, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place and La Mama. She frequently collaborates with director David Schweizer on her theater pieces.

Marga is a Drama Desk award nominee and the winner of the GLAAD Media Award for Off-Broadway Theater, Theater LA’s Ovation Award for “Best Featured Actress,” New York’s Hola Award for “Best Solo Performance.” Marga’s acting credits include roles in the Off Broadway and national companies of The Vagina Monologues working alongside Rita Moreno, Vicki Lawrence, Lisa Ling and Jo Beth Williams. Selections from Gomez’s work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure (TCG Books), HOWL (Crown Press), Out Loud & Laughing (Anchor Books), Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color (Routledge) When I Knew (Harper-Collins) and Out of Character (Bantam Books.)

Credits

HONORS
“25 Hottest LGBT Acts” Campus Pride 2009?
“Outstanding Performance” HOLA Awards 2009
“Best Comedian” SF Bay Guardian Reader’s Poll 2009 & 2008
Certificate of Recogntion, California State Assembly 2007
“Outstanding Solo Performance” Drama Desk Award Nomination 2006
GLAAD Media Award 2004
“Best Supporting Actress” Ovation Awards Los Angeles 1994
Writing Fellowship, Sundance Film Festival 1996

TELEVISION
HBO, Comic Relief
HBO, Tracy Takes On
Showtime, Latino Laugh Festival
PBS, In The Life
Comedy Central, Out There
LOGO, Outlaugh Festival
LOGO, One Night Stand –Up
HERE, Laughing Matters

FILM
SPHERE, Warner Brothers
BATMAN FOREVER, Warner Brothers
ROSA NEGRA, Independent
D WORD, Independent
DESI’S GOT A NEW GIRL, Independent

OFF BROADWAY
Vagina Monologues, (Actress) West Side Theater
Los Big Names, (Author, Performer) 47th Street Theater
A Line Around The Block, (Author, Performer) Public Theater
Long Island Iced Latina, (Author, Performer) 47th Street Theater

APPEARANCES