Margo Rofé

MARGO ROFÉ is a playwright and a retired lawyer, who currently resides in Southern California. Margo graduated from California State University at Long Beach, CA, where she majored in both English Literature and Spanish Literature. She also received her law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Currently Margo serves as Board Chair for the Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, in which she is also an ensemble member; is a playwright in the Playwrights Lab of The Robey Theatre Company founded by Danny Glover and Ben Guillory in Los Angeles, CA; is a Dan Berkowitz Fellow with the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights; and participates in playwriting workshops at South Coast Repertory, in Costa Mesa, CA. Margo also served as a committee member on the 43rd NAACP Image Awards’ Literary Sub-committee in the category of Poetry Literature.

Margo is the author of “Can’t Hold Water”, a powerful monologue about one woman’s journey to expose the secrets of sexual abuse in her religious family (produced by the University of Nebraska Omaha as part of its BIPOC Festival (2022)); “The Trial” (a play about a dystopian world brought on by climate change in which melanin becomes prized as the only thing between survival and death (produced by The Pulp Stage Theatre, Portland, OR (2022)); “Caplata”, a play about a Haitian clairvoyant who uses her powers to seek retribution for the death of her boss who died of Covid-19, written in honor of Bernard Fils-Aimé, an actual Covid victim (produced by Breath of Fire as part of the Covid Monologues Series (2021) and published in “The Covid Monologues” (2022)); “The Dreamer”, a dark-comedy monologue about a middle-aged woman reflecting on her dreams deferred, her sexuality, aging, feelings of isolation and depression, and thoughts of suicide while quarantined alone during the pandemic (performed as part of Breath of Fire’s Zoom Staged Stories Series (2020)); “Venn Diagram” a gripping and heartbreaking play about the relationship between a Black woman and a Jewish woman, both seniors, and their struggle to forge a future together, that explores the inherited and long-lasting effects and burdens of transgenerational trauma and mental illness (table readings at both Breath of Fire (2020) and the Robey Theater (2021); Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights Staged Reading at the New Promenade Playhouse, Westwood, California (2022)); “Mister Freeman,” a comedic monologue with a play on words about the stereotypes faced by a senior Black male; and “He Ain’t Heavy”, a humorous and tragic story of lost opportunity, written in English, Spanish, and Spanglish, about two siblings in a race against time to make amends during Covid.