Margot Carmody

Writer

2025 MFA, Dramatic Writing

Born and raised in Queens, New York. Margot was brought up in two different worlds… 

Her Mother’s: where her biggest problem in New England as a kid was that she was allergic to her horse Chestnut. 

Her Father’s: where his biggest problem was no one believed he had an outer-body experience after being trampled by buffalo on his indigenous grandfather’s farm in the Latin Caribbean. 

Naturally growing up ethnically ambiguous led to her start in the industry as a child model in the 90’s, which ended after she witnessed Big Bird’s arm fall off during the K-Mart/Sesame Street Fashion Show…Penny Marshall still shook Big Bird’s phantom limb and this is an image Margot will never forget. 

After being thrown in the closet in second grade for pulling her shirt over her head and screaming, “I am Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole!”, she began to write comedy. When she reached legal drinking age she bought her first laptop and began work as an intern for Edward Bass Films as a writers assistant on projects in development. 

Her Comedy Feature “The Other Girl Next Door” was a second rounder at the Austin Film Festival. Her musical “Happy Birthday David!” sold out on opening night at The People’s Improv Theater Mainstage. She has had various sketches featured on Funny or Die such as “Popular Girls Club”, “Internet Cats”, and “The Geek”. Margot completed her comedy studies at UCB Improv Theater, The PIT, and The Second City Conservatory. After working with Stonestreet Studios to launch their first screenwriting festival as a reader and script consultant she has taught undergraduates screenwriting for Science Fiction TV at Carnegie Mellon University. 

Beavis performed poetry as Cornholio which inspired Margot to complete her B.A. from NYU with a minor in poetry and write her first full-length play, “Hi Bi” that received a PLAYBILL write up as an LGBTQIA+ artist to watch during Michael Urie’s Produced Pride Plays. Let your kids watch cartoons.