BIO

Dancer, Actor, Choreographer, Teacher, Business Owner, Performer.

DANCER

Margaret Pugh is a professional dancer, having started her training young as she danced in competition dance, a ballet academy, the Vox Medusa Company in Minnesota, and trained at Harpeth Hall with the New Dialect dance company in Nashville. She is proficient in ballet, contemporary, jazz, modern, hip hop, heels, and improv.

Margaret graduated Summa Cum Laude from George Mason University with a BFA in Dance and a Minor in Theater. She also received the Academic Excellence award from the School of Dance.

Since graduation, Margaret has pursued both Commercial and Concert dance opportunities. She traveled with the do Portugal International Circus as a dancer, baton artist, magician’s assistant, and the quick change artist’s assistant.

After running with the circus, Margaret continued dancing by joining the di Mossa dance company in Nashville Tennessee as a full time member. She also has performed in various project based performances, such as Satellite Dance.

She also performs as a backup dancer with Pistol Pearl and has appeared in many dance films, from ICEE commercials to Cokesbury kid’s dance videos, to movie musicals.

Currently, Margaret is also performing weekly at the Woolworth theater in their new show Marquee.

Actor

Margaret Pugh often thought that becoming an actor would be her dream, not her reality, that is until she booked her first film acting job, the lead in a new indie horror film. After 1 month on set, she was hooked and knew she needed to get on another set.

Since Margaret’s first film (which is still in post production), she has starred in many short films, including “Harvest of Horrors” which was presented at the White Squirrel Film Festival, Crystal Lake Nightmares, Momentu College Film Festival, and won an honorable mention at Scumdance Film Festival. She also was the lead in, “Unmasked” (2025), “Are You Home?” (2025), and “Hallucinations” (2024).

She can’t wait for you to see her next film “The Last Sleepover,” which is set to premier soon!

Check out her IMDB HERE!

CHOREOGRAPHER

Margaret Pugh is an artist who has never stuck to just one thing. Although she began with dance, training for most of her life in the discipline, she has found over time that she enjoys mixing various performance mediums into her artistic work.

No where is this more evident than in her personal choreographic work, where she uses dance as her “first language” which she then supports by adding music, film work, and costuming, including many original crochet and fiber art pieces that she handcrafts.

“Through movement and dance, she expresses and creates worlds woven with narrative, sentiment, and wit”

Margaret finds joy in building dances rich with storytelling. Many of her dance films can be found here.

Aerial, Circus, MOdeling, Music and More?

Margaret has also trained and other areas of performance including Aerial Silks and Lyra and even some low-wire tightrope.

She also has experience modeling for fine art and commercial shoots, and also has experience in film and print modeling.

Margaret is also a trained vocalist and will soon be directing her first short film! If one thing is for sure, she hopes to always continue to learn, grown, and try new things.