Margot Bordelon is a New York based director who specializes in new work. Recent projects: POTUS by Selina Fillinger at Arena Stage; Let’s Call Her Patty by Zarina Shea at LCT3; On the Far End by Mary Kathryn Nagle at Roundhouse Theatre; The Brightest Thing in the World by Leah Nanako Winkler at Yale Rep; peerless by Jiehae Park at Primary Stages; …what the end will be by Mansa Ra at Roundabout Theatre Company (NYT's Critic's pick); When Monica Met Hillary by Winter Miller at Miami New Drama; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee at Denver Center; Someone Else’s House by Jared Mezzocchi at Geffen Playhouse; You Lost Me by Bonnie Metzger at Denver Center; Dance Nation by Clare Barron at The Wilma; Wives by Jaclyn Backhaus at Playwrights Horizons; Something Clean by Selina Fillinger at Roundabout Underground (NYT's Critic's pick); Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-Greenberg at the Vineyard; Eddie and Dave by Amy Staats at Atlantic Theater Company; Plot Points in Our Sexual Development by Miranda Rose Hall at LCT3; Wilder Gone by Angela Hanks for Clubbed Thumb (NYT's Critic's pick); Do You Feel Anger? at ATL’s Humana Festival, The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play by Megan Hill at ACT in Seattle, and Dodo Theater Collective, Too Heavy For Your Pocket by Mansa Ra at the Roundabout Underground and the Alliance, T. by Dan Aibel at American Theater Company, The Pen by Julianne Wick Davis and Dan Collins for Premieres NYC (NYT’s Critic's pick), peerless by Jiehae Park at Yale Rep, Cherry Lane, and Marin Theatre Company, A Delicate Ship by Anna Ziegler for The Playwrights Realm (NYT's Critic's pick), and Okay, Bye by Joshua Conkel at Steppenwolf Theater.

In New York, her work has been seen at Ars Nova, Atlantic Theatre, The Bushwick Starr, Ensemble Studio Theater, Juilliard, The Lark, Ma-Yi, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYTW, P73, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, The Public, Rattlestick, Roundabout, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Target Margin, and Theater Masters, among others. Regionally, she’s developed work with Berkeley Rep, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Perry Mansfield, Play Penn, Playwrights’ Center, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Repertory Theater, 12 Bridges, Two Rivers Theater, The Wilma, Yale Repertory Theater, and Woolly Mammoth.

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, where she conceived and directed We Live Here; Lies & Liars; and Yes, This Really Happened to Me (all with Cassy Sanders). 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 Seattle where she worked for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space, University of Washington PATP, Live Girls! and Double Shot Productions. 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