About me

Margarita Valderrama is a Colombian-Canadian, screenwriter, playwright, and Dora Mavor Moore; and ACTRA Award nominated actor. Margarita completed the Reelworld Emerging 20 Program and the Canadian Film Centre’s Norman Jewison Writers Lab and was shortlisted for the RBC Emerging Playwright Award through the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Her cultural background and experience as an immigrant are always important parts of her work; showcasing her culture and community’s humour, their diversity, and generational differences with a lot of laughter and heart. Margarita’s work also features female and queer lead characters that are vulnerable, miserable, toxic and funny all at the same time. 

But more importantly, she’s a karaoke enthusiast.

My Plays

One Perfect Day | Un día perfecto


Synopsis:

One Perfect Day | Un día perfecto is a hilarious portrait of a family in crisis on a big wedding day. Expertly crafted family chaos wonderfully realized through the much loved genre of the telenovela. Alba and Evan think they’re getting the picture perfect Colombian wedding but when the groom is swapped with an evil twin by a long lost sister bent on revenge, the special day falls into chaos, testing the family’s strength. The play is full of humour and heart; It’s a joyous and mischievous marriage between Colombian wedding traditions, the telenovela genre and the ceremony of attending the theatre. Written for a cast of seven, the script provides opportunities for Latine BIPOC and women to take on playful, complex roles. The project centers these communities’ joy, laughter and escapism. 


Number of Characters: 8


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 7


Length (in Pages): 87


Location: Wedding venue


Key Words: wedding, telenovela, latine, latinx, queer, family, comedy, camp


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins: Shortlist nominee for the RBC Emerging Playwright Award


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Witch Girl Summer


Synopsis:

After a friend break-up, an obsessive young woman desperately searching for the magic secret to be beautiful and young forever, unwittingly makes a supernatural deal where she must now share her body with a murderous, blood-thirsty witch.


Number of Characters: 3


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3


Length (in Pages): 85


Location: Bedroom


Key Words: horror, comedy, queer, witch, witchcraft, beauty industry, friend break-up


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Margarita Valderrama
@ margarita-vald

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London, UK

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