After many sold out nights The Berkeley Marsh will extend “Swimming With Lesbians” until March 3rd
The New York premiere of ‘Swimming With Lesbians” begins Friday March 29,through April 7th, 2024 at La MaMa ETC
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
The final SOLD OUT “Who’s Your Mami Comedy” is on Thursday Nov 16th. After four years of co-producing it and performing it and creating a kick ass vibe for women comics and audiences who love us even during the zoom years and ending in person for 10 sold out shows in 2023 it’s a wrap at Brava’s adorable cabaret. Thanks to the comedians (even some cool guys) our audience and BRAVA for letting me create the comedy show of my dreams.
Our Last Show but Never Say Never
How we started -Backstage in 2019
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Brava Theater Presents
A West Coast Premiere
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.)
Meet “Captain Debbie”
This Cobbs show is listed as $20 but there are always lots of discount tickets on Goldstar.
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
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)
Marga’s Outdoor full stand Up comedy set followed by Thee Sacred Souls music artists - 21 and over. Low priced ticketed benefit https://liveatlagunitastheesacredsouls.eventbrite.com
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
When Marga (she/they) was just a little girl who liked girls, they learned that you can lose friends by coming out, even to your imaginary friends. But with enough time our minds and hearts can open and the imaginary friends, Sparkle, Piper and Viva, returned to the grown-up Marga on a lonely pandemic night to become allies and an imaginary pod. “All Ages with Marga Gomez” is a funny, queer, family-friendly work-in-progress that conjures mythical worlds and celebrates gender freedom.
All Ages with Marga Gomez runs 60 minutes and will take place live in Brava’s Studio.
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PRO TIP - Grab the Flash Sale discounted $10 tickets with promo code: HALFSPANK - hurry just a handful half price tix left. This is my 13th one person show that was postponed because of lockdown. I have streamed it since 2020 and it had a few live shows in 2021.This is probably the last time I will perform this show live. So I’m getting it filmed for a future video on demand BUT I’d love you to be part of the audience if you are in The Bay Area Thurs. Feb 3rd.. Note the show starts at SEVEN (7 PM) It runs 75 minutes.
SF CHRONICLE 2021: Marga Gomez has a profound, lyrical way with metaphor, but her style is so the opposite of artsy-fartsy or pretentious that her literary insights practically sneak in undercover.
With “Spanking Machine” — the first show the Marsh San Francisco has presented in person since the pandemic began — Gomez derives her title from a threat she remembers from grade school, where a so-called “spanking machine” was an unimaginably horrible punishment waiting for bad kids always unseen in the next room.
Gomez weaves that image together with an array of scenes from her life that somehow all make sense together — her first “boyfriend,” before they both came out, as well as their reconnection much later in life; kinky sex; and an ever-present threat of violence.
The spanking machine, it turns out, keeps menacing long after you can no longer get sent to the principal’s office.
“Spanking Machine”: 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Sept. 17-18. Through Oct. 23. $20-$100. The Marsh, 1062 Valencia St., S.F. 415-282-3055. www.themarsh.org
— Lily Janiak
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.
Or you can buy me a coffee if you have the urge : )
It’s Marga’s birthday again! It’s timed for bicoastal pleasure. Come through the zoom for short-attention span party games, pop up performances and romantic breakout rooms. Your $10 ticket will fund the creation of Marga’s new radio play about gender and childhood.
Enter by May 10th with these steps:
Perform YOUR comedy (under 60 seconds) into your (phone or laptop) Post it directly to your INASTAGRAM or FACEBOOK page. Set that post to PUBLIC. INCLUDE hashtag #bravasfunniestmami
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
This was my first one person show - Off Broadway. Very excited to bring it back at the Playground Solo Performance Festival. Save $5 on a ticket and help me out by using my special code: PSF4MG$10 — It’s at 7pm Pacific. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS your ticket allows you to view the show for one week if you miss the live performance.
This program is Fri at 6pm Pacific time over zoom — I love this organization that provides scholarships and positivity. A $10 or higher donation is all you need to come thru and see me, Lila Downs and the amazing awardees. CLICK FOR TIX
Click HERE on Dec 5th and 6th to enter the live Zoom shows “Wild mix of childhood memory, social satire, reflections on aging, denial of same, confession, evasion and laugh riot.”
Highest Rating, SF Chronicle
