Her focus is paying dividends right now. And the 25-year-old has earned her successes. As she experiences newfound fame and begins to see her lifelong ambitions realized, this smart girl from a steel town never forgets the pitfalls along the way. One in particular stung her deeply a few years ago.
“I had an audition for a new Broadway musical and I had been going back and forth — before I moved to New York,” she shares. “I had gone to New York 13 times for 13 call-backs. And a lot of that was me spending the money — either flights or buses or my mom driving me up. It was a lot of work. The last time I got called to New York for the show they flew all of us up. I went back home but I got a call from the casting company. The guy on the phone said ‘Hi, is this Margot?’ I said ‘Yes, this is her!’ He paused and said ‘I’m so sorry. I called the wrong person.’ He called me by accident. It was one of the most disappointing things. About an hour later, I got the rejection email. It was like a year and a half long tease.”
But that moment didn’t defeat or deflate her. Instead, Margot Bingham decided that she wasn’t going to let small failures blind her to the big picture.
“I framed the rejection letter and put it in my bedroom,” she says. “A lot of people would’ve been really torn up about it, and it was disappointing, but it was an eye-opener and I realized there would be a lot more disappointment in my career and I just have to be ready.
“[Since then], I’ve been blessed to come to New York City and I’ve been working ever since I got here. I haven’t had to do anything else. To know that you can do what you love and earn a living? That’s one of the best feelings as an artist.”
