Biography

Margot Fenley is an Australian actor, educator, intimacy professional, devisor and director. Originally trained as an actor at VCA, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, she earned her MFA (Theatre) there in 2021, writing a four-hander play, Gruoch, based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, developed through solo improvisation. Gruoch was recently supported by a creative development through Antipodes Theatre’s 2024 WinterLab.

As an actor, Margot has worked with Melbourne Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Malthouse Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, La Mama, Darlinghurst Theatre, Hothouse, and fortyfive downstairs, amongst others, and has appeared in guest roles on numerous Australian TV series throughout her 30-year career. She has had an extensive teaching career, particularly focused on training professional performers, including at the University of Melbourne (VCA) from 2009 to mid-2023, where she was the inaugural Head of Music Theatre (2009-2018). Internationally, she has taught for the musical theatre programs at Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) in 2019 and at the University of Michigan (2022-23).

Margot was one of eight Australian recipients of an MEAA-Equity Foundation scholarship awarded in 2021 to train as an intimacy professional with IDC (USA), and works as an intimacy professional in stage, screen and educational contexts, with recent credits including Romeo & Julie (dir: Kamarra Bell-Wykes) and Blackout Songs (dir: Tom Healey) for Red Stitch, the national tour of Grease (dir: Luke Joslin) for CrossRoads Live, and Neighbours (dir: various) for Amazon Prime. Recent directing credits include Willow Sizer and Rachel Lewindon’s highly acclaimed musical theatre adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando for Antipodes Theatre at fortyfive downstairs, and Kikki Temple’s play Stuck for Midsumma 2024 at the Meat Market.

Margot is represented by Ian White Management and has been a proud member of Actor’s Equity since 1991.