Marga Gomez
GLAAD award winning solo performer Marga Gomez will dive into the One For All Festival with Swimming With Lesbians, a buoyant and bawdy romp, set aboard a fictional lesbian luxury ocean liner. In the course of her high energy journey Gomez morphs into a boatload of lustful characters including: Isabelle, an accident prone Lacrosse player yearning for her first Lesbian affair, the ship’s commander, Captain Debbie, who goes strictly by the book (in this case it’s The Kama Sutra) and Pru Perez, the butch presenting but secretly meek bingo caller, spending days at sea in hiding from her childhood bully Arlene who has booked passage.
Swimming With Lesbians made its 2024 world premiere at LaMaMa Experimental Theater. It was developed at The Marsh and Brava Theater in San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle described Gomez as mixing “an anthropologist’s observational prowess with a musician’s ear for the funny-sounding word” Bay City News declared her as a “sublime gift to the comedy world.” Swimming with Lesbians runs approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.Recommended for audiences over 17.
“Gomez is an absolute triumph onstage” — Daily Californian
“Fabulously Hilarious” — SF GATE
“Scrumptious characters!” — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle
“No matter your age, gender or sexual persuasion, if you feel like laughing until you’re gasping for breath, ‘Swimming With Lesbians’ is a must-see.” — SF GATE
Marga Gomez is a GLAAD Award winning writer and performer of fifteen solo plays which have been presented nationally, Off-Broadway, internationally and in the Bay Area at The Marsh, New Conservatory Theater Center, Brava Theater, Theater Rhinoceros, Playground and The Magic Theater. Her acting credits include all the roles in Jane Wagners’ The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life ( Aurora Theater, Berkeley 2025) Fefu and Her Friends (ACT San Francisco 2022) Dr Rides’ American Beach House (Ars Nova, New York 2019)The Vagina Monologues with Rita Moreno and Vicki Lawrence (Theater On The Square, San Francisco 2002) as well as film and television appearances on Netflix Sense8, HBO’s Tracey Takes On… and Warner Brothers films Batman Forever and Sphere.
As a stand-up comedian, Gomez was a founding members of the legendary Latiné Comedy ensemble Culture Clash and one of first out Lesbians in comedy. She got her start in Queer comedy at San Francisco’s Valencia Rose and Josie’s Cabaret. She has been honored numerous times by readers of the Bay Guardian/48 Hills and Bay Area Reporter as “Best Comedian”. Her work has also been recognized and supported by the San Francisco Arts Council, United States Artist Fellowship and The Cultural Center For Innovation. Musical artist Sting once told Marga “You’re f**king funny!” Her website is margagomez.com