Are you a solo performer wanting to transform from one character to another. Do you want to own the stage in your storytelling and keep your audience engaged. Private coaching now available. This is not a writing workshop. It is strictly how to enhance, stage, explore, inhabit and deliver what you have written. I have written and performed 15 solo plays nationally and online. I have worked with a director and self-directed. Contact margagomezworkshop at gmail.com for availability and rate. Sessions can be 30 minutes or longer subject to availability.

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Swimming With Lesbians will play at the San Francisco Marsh from June 7th through June 22nd. Tickets will be on sale soon. Stay tuned. And the show will be presented one night only in Toronto on June 1 at the “We’re Funny That Way Festival” for Toronto tickets visit werefunnythatway.com

Happy 2024. Until January 25th click the image below for link to experience my classic 2006 naughty Xmas show. Approx 90 minutes. Never been online before. Donations big and small will support the production and crew of my new show “Swimming With Lesbians” as it opens in NYC Spring 2024 and takes over the world..Support at PayPal.me/margagomez or venmo@margagomez Gracias (I spelled my name wrong in the graphic D’oh!)

Ahoy! “Swimming With Lesbians” is my 14th one person show bound for an Off Broadway World Premiere at La MaMa spring 2024. See it first at the Berkeley Marsh theater Jan 6th through January 28th 2024. Saturday and Sundays at 5pm. 5pm shows are my favorite (just before things get out of hand.) Or see me in Santa Cruz in December (the dive bar version). Follow the links to learn more about my funny 65 minute show for grown ups. Psssst - BERKELEY — my Jan 6 preview is only $15 with DISCOUNT code: BIKINI Click the flyer for tickets and more info ⬇️

Santa Cruz pre Christmas? HELL YEAH!!! My Santa Cruz producer friend is hooking me up with a microphone and back room that we hope to fill with rowdy queers and sea dogs at the Blue Lagoon for 2 shows. This Santa Cruz version is me performing it on mic spoken word style and cheap tickets. Just google Marga Gomez on eventbrite. Limited seating reserve soon. Dec. 16 & 17th 2023

Brava Theater Presents

A West Coast Premiere

SWIMMING WITH LESBIANS

October 6 - October 22, 2023

Brava Theater proudly presents the West Coast Premiere of Marga Gomez’s fourteenth one person show, Swimming With Lesbians.  Gomez’s full steam farce takes place aboard “The Celesbian,” regarded as the most notorious cruise ship on the high seas. Throughout the performance Gomez morphs into a boatload of hilarious queer characters including: Isabelle a disgraced Lacrosse player yearning for her first Lesbian affair, Captain Debbie who is always ready to go down in the ship, and the outwardly jovial but secretly meek bingo caller Pru Perez. When Captain Debbie orders Pru to conduct pool games on the Lezzo Deck things veer off course. Pru discovers her old boarding school bully Arlene on board, circling the pool like a shark. How these intrepid Lesbians navigate through danger, lust and endless buffets is a seafaring tale that will never be told in Florida. The performance runs 65 minutes with no intermission and is recommended for mature audiences.

Swimming With Lesbians will be presented October 6 – October 22, 2023, with Friday, Saturday, Sunday performances. Showtimes are 7:30 pm Fridays and Saturdays and 5:00 pm Sundays at Brava Cabaret, 2773 24th St., San Francisco. Tickets are $25. For more information or to order tickets, the public may visit www.Brava.org

THE CREATIVE TEAM and ORIGIN

Marga Gomez has been subliminally developing Swimming With Lesbians since the 1990’s when she worked as a cruise ship entertainer. Inspired by her fondness for The Poseidon Adventure, Sponge Bob (and Lesbians,) Gomez set out to create thrilling lesbian characters for a theater world in which they have rarely been featured. In the Summer of 2023 “Swimming With Lesbians” enjoyed workshop engagements in San Francisco at The Marsh and in New York at Dixon Place. Joining Marga on her quest is a creative team of esteemed story makers: Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe (Black To The Future) Jackie Marchand (Power Rangers) Sarah Toby Moore (Atomic Comic) Monica Palacios (San Francisco Mi Amor) and David Schweizer (Latin Standards.)

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It’s L Word meets Poseidon Adventure being developed in-person in San Francisco on three separate dates Feb/March 2023. Other solo performers share the evenings.

Tickets will be on sale for Jan 26 at solosundays.com

Tickets for Brava will be available soon at brava.org

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3 Weekends. 6 Livestreams & Replays. Click picture.

Each weekend - I will be adapting and performing one of my favorite solo plays for two performances. So three weekends, three shows. 6 performances. Opening the series will be “Latin Standards” a New York Times “Critics Pick” The second weekend will be a revival of my 1992 first solo play “Memory Tricks” the one about my mom. Closing the series will be “Not Getting Any Younger” a comedic romp about senioritis.

Since the pandemic began, through trial and error and investment, I can offer you an interactive theatrical experience in the comfort of your own home. A 30 year anniversary doesn’t happen every day - I hope you can join me wherever you are in the world. Each ticket includes a 7 day replay for your selection (Sunday to Sunday)

I am super excited to start touring “Spanking Machine” again. First stop is the theater that commissioned Spanking Machine just before the pandemic. It will be on Tuesday July 26th, a one night only special benefit for Dixon Place (sliding scale tickets start at $20) CLICK HERE FOR NYC TICKETS

From August 3rd through August 7th “Spanking Machine” will be presented at the Logan Solo festival from 1st Stage Theater in Tysons, VA which is not too far from Washington DC. CLICK HERE FOR 1st STAGE TICKETS

PRESS QUOTES:

“Gomez’s narrator in this story is not defined by her attacks. She’s a ceramics-shattering, pleasure-seeking, curiosity-gratifying observer with quick wit and a sharper tongue. She’s learned how to take herself out of a bad situation. She’s learned how to ask for what she wants.” Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 2020

“She’s exceptional at establishing an up close and personal rapport with us, the viewers” Jean Schiffman, San Francisco Examiner, 2020

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All the cool creative kids are moving from Patreon to Buy Me A Coffee. Claim a private coaching session or pick my brain over zoom - sessions range from 15 to 60 minutes. I will also be offering personalized birthday and holiday video greetings for your darlings. And if you want to start live streaming I can help you get started . Click the cute Logo above or the cute picture below and we’re off.

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Send a link to your social media comedy post to mami@brava.org by midnight MAY 10th. On May 12th we'll select 10 comedians from all the submissions to perform 3-5 minutes on Zoom. The audience will pick first prize $100 and 2nd prize $50. The Finals happen on Thursday May 20th 7pm PST with special guest, the hilarious Carla Clay and Marga as host . To cheer on the finalists and get a ticket for "Brava's Funniest Mami" click the image below. or visit www.brava.org