She has been featured in online theater festivals from New York to San Diego, as well as a five-week virtual run for Brava, SF where she is an artist-in-residence.
Her father, Willy Chevalier, was a comedian from Cuba, while her mother, Margarita Estremera, was an exotic dancer from Puerto Rico.
She got her start in comedy, performing bits in her parents' variety shows before moving to San Francisco after college in 1979,[3] at the age of 20 to pursue a creative career.
[3] Memory Tricks, Latin Standards and Marga Gomez is Pretty, Witty and Gay all speak towards these attributes, among many others.
In 2002, Marga co-wrote and co-starred with Carmelita Tropicana in Single Wet Female for a three-week sold-out engagement at New York's Performance Space 122 under the direction of David Schweizer.
[16] She has also joined the casts of The Vagina Monologues several times, sharing the stage with Rita Moreno, Jobeth Williams, Barbara Rush and others.
She has appeared on HBO's Comic Relief, Showtime's Latino Laugh Festival, Comedy Central's Out There and the PBS series In the Life.
[18] Gomez's film and television credits include HBO's Tracey Takes On..., Sphere, Batman Forever and Netflix's "Sense8: Christmas Special".
The late American actor and comedian Robin Williams said of Gomez, "Amazing, she's like a lesbian Lenny Bruce.
Gomez was one of eight playwrights to be commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum's Latino Theater Initiative as part of the 2005 Amor Eterno project.