Meet The Playwright Presents Olvidame (Forget Me)

Join us for our free theatre series, Meet the Playwright! Meet the Playwright offers an inside look at the creative process through semi-staged readings by Queens-based BIIPOC playwrights and post-show conversations with the creative teams.This presentation features the play Olvidame(Forget Me) by Margot Carmody.

About The Play: Haunted by the pulsing rhythms of Bullerengue, Celeste travels from New York to Colombia to return her father’s ashes, only to be drawn into a magical, ancestral space by Sol, a playful Tombelero. Through music, dance, and ritual, she encounters her father’s life as an NYPD officer, uncovering the silences, sacrifices, and erased culture of his immigrant journey. OLVÍDAME is a visceral, immersive experience blending Afro-Colombian traditions, hip-hop, and storytelling to transform grief into celebration. Live drums and call-and-response invite audiences to become part of a nine-night wake where memory, music, and ancestral voices guide the way. At once intimate and epic, the play explores love, loss, and the legacies we inherit. Step into a world where Bullerengue drums summon the ancestors, and dance and song transform grief into transcendence, where to remember the drum is to feel a happiness no one can see.

Margot Carmody is a Latinx playwright, born and raised in Queens, New York. Margot holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and earned a B.A. from New York University with a minor in Creative Writing and Poetry. Additional training includes The Stella Adler Studio, Atlantic Acting School, Second City Conservatory, Upright Citizens Brigade, The People's Improv Theater, ESPA Primary Stages, and Button Poetry with Neil Hilborn. As a screenwriter, Margot’s romantic comedy The Other Girl Next Door was a second-rounder at the Austin Film Festival. Margot’s sketch comedy has been featured on Funny or Die Community. Margot has performed original poetry at KGB Bar & Lit Lounge, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, and Lovecraft Bar NYC.