Bio + CV

Margot Morales (she/they) is a writer, performer, and director in Melbourne.

Their experimental solo work IN THE LIKELY EVENT OF FOREVER, won the 2023 Green Room Award for Best Writing in Cabaret and received the Headroom Award supported by RISING.

Their queer adaptation of Eros and Psyche, PSYCHE404ERROR, won Best Work in Festival at Melbourne Fringe 2021 and was nominated for a Green Room Award in Experimental Practice.

As a director, Margot directed the sold-out season of Anna Piper Scott’s AN EVENING WITH JK for Melbourne Fringe 2023. In 2022, they directed the sold-out season of CLUB NITE at the nightclub Miscellania and Harrison David Rivers’ AND SHE WOULD STAND LIKE THIS for Antipodes Theatre Company at the Meat Market Stables.

Margot was recently an Artistic Associate at Melbourne Theatre Company where they’ve also worked as Associate Director for Benjamin Law’s TORCH THE PLACE, Assistant Director on Florian Zeller’s THE TRUTH, and presented their own play DEAD IN A LIVEABLE CITY at Cybec Electric 2021.

Margot is currently expanding their experimental practice, recently performing in Ari Angkasa’s SUSPICIOUS FISH for Melbourne Fringe/Long Prawn’s curated program at Fed Square and in Andy Butler’s LIVING TRUTHFULLY IN INVENTED CIRCUMSTANCES (ACCA). They also performed in Shelley O’Meara’s TITS OUT and Ebony Mueller’s NOW PIECES #7 at Dancehouse and completed a directing secondment on Lucy Guerin Inc.'s NEWRETRO.

As a musical comedian, her solo show VANITY FAIR ENOUGH was nominated for the Golden Gibbo at the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Margot has also performed their original songs at the Enmore Theatre, Forum Theatre, and with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for Eddie Perfect’s Perfect End To 2020.

Margot is currently on the Cabaret panel for the Green Room Awards.

THEATRE

AN EVENING WITH JK (Director)

2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2024 Adelaide Fringe

TRASH POP BUTTERFLIES, DANCE DANCE PARADISE (Performer)

2023 Theatre Works (Play by Maki Morita, directed by Amelia Burke)

IN THE LIKELY EVENT OF FOREVER, (Creator/Performer/Director)

2022 Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2023 State Library of Victoria

CLUB NITE (Director)

2022 Club Nite Company (Miscellania)

AND SHE WOULD STAND LIKE THIS (Director)

2022 Antipodes Theatre Company (Midsumma Festival)

THE TRUTH (Assistant Director)

2021 Melbourne Theatre Company

DEAD IN A LIVEABLE CITY (Writer)

2021 Cybec Electric with Melbourne Theatre Company (Play excerpt reading)

THE LOCKDOWN MONOLOGUES (Performer)

2020 Malthouse Theatre (Online)

TORCH THE PLACE (Associate Director)

2020 Melbourne Theatre Company

NEW WAVE (Writer/Director)

2020 Midsumma Queer Playwriting Award (Play excerpt reading)

THE GLOSS (Writer)

2019 First Stage with Melbourne Theatre Company/Emerging Writers’ Festival (Play excerpt reading)

FORGOTTEN PLACES (Performer/Dancer/Maker)

2019 Citizen Theatre, Chapel Off Chapel

ROMEO IS NOT THE ONLY FRUIT (Performer/Additional Writing)

2018 Melbourne International Comedy Festival (The Coopers Malthouse), Brisbane Festival, HotHouse Theatre, Poppyseed Theatre Festival

ESTRELLA WING, SHOWGIRL (Creator/Producer/Performer)

2017 Melbourne Fringe Festival

ROMEO IS NOT THE ONLY FRUIT (Performer/Co-writer)

2016 Union House Theatre (DisColourNation)