Hello! My name is Margarita Brodie. I am a filmmaker, designer, and teacher at the National Theatre School of Canada, based in Montreal.

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I love running my hand through racks of clothing in thrift stores, wandering green alleyways, and daydreaming as landscapes blur through train windows. I adore old photographs and graphic design; tattered flea-market relics; oxymorons; notes in the margins of secondhand books... 

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Play me a song and I’ll imagine a scene that lives inside it. Hand me a piece of tulle and I’ll hold it up to the light. Show me a hand-painted sign and I’ll wonder who stood beneath it fifty years ago. Grant me two actors, some rain and a camera, and I’ll catch the secret passing between them as the shutter clicks.

 

No matter the medium, I want to make work that lingers in people’s imaginations. I love telling stories with soul that stir wonder in the audiences who behold them. And I love telling these stories with other people.​

 

Creating, for me, is as much about those gathered around the table as it is about the work itself. I especially enjoy collaborating with people whose imaginations are different from mine — discovering, playing, and surprising each other along the way.​

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I studied Set & Costume Design at the National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 2020 with the Ada Slaight Award for Leadership and Empathy. Since then, my work has carried me through film, theatre, dance, circus, and photography — sometimes all at once.

 

​Most recently, I wrote, directed, and produced my short film Noah & Nicole. I am currently developing new work for the screen while collaborating on theatre productions across Canada, primarily as a costume designer.

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I work in both French and English, but mostly I work in images.