Margaret found her love of theatre while acting in musicals at Creative Summer, an arts camp, run by her mother, at Holton Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland.   It was there, at the age of eight, that Margaret developed the passion that would fuel her for the rest of her life.  The rigorous three-week rehearsal schedule along with the demands of mounting a full-scale production,…Wet her appetite for more.  Her summers, spent mostly in the theatre, provided a much, needed escape from the mundane school year...Which was wrought with bullying and isolation from her peers. 

Around the time of her thirteenth birthday, Margaret persuaded her parents to sign her up for private voice lessons.   She wanted to express herself and chose music.  She immersed herself in the Italian, French, and German arias at Catholic University-Developing a strong affinity for Classical Music and Opera.

After high school, Margaret enrolled in the Vocal Performance/Opera Program at DePaul University studying with coaches from The Lyric Opera of Chicago.  While there, she performed in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman and Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera directed by Harry Silverstein from the prestigious Goodman School of Drama.  In the summer of ’96, Margaret appeared in The Berkshire Opera Company’s production of La Cenerentola, working with Margaret Lattimore and others from The Metropolitan Opera.  A year later, she found herself back in Washington, studying privately with Richard Wilmer, president of The Potomac Valley Opera Company.  She is a classically trained Opera vocalist.

To support her ongoing voice lessons, Margaret took on a job modeling for painting, drawing, and sculpture classes at The Corcoran School of Art.  Her unique look coupled with a tall, toned, dancer’s physique, caught the attention of the major local photographers, introducing her to a new medium.  In the late nineties, Margaret was invited to model for The Maine Photographic Workshop-Where she was introduced to fine art photographer Lucien Clergue, collaborating on an extensive body of work,  which can be seen in museums, galleries, and coffee table books,…Spanning nearly two decades.  Margaret moved to New York City shortly after, supporting herself on modeling gigs while furthering her studies in voice and acting.  

In 2000, she landed a starring role in a commercial, joining The Screen Actors Guild shortly there after.  Bit roles in film and television followed.  But it was the world premiere of My Life as a Bald Soprano, in the New York Theatre Festival circuit, where Ms. Baker made her debut as a playwright, performance artist, and lyricist.  This production transformed her creative life.  She went on to write prose and shorts, until embarking on her first feature length film Two Spirited, with writer/director, Peter Gathings Bunche.

She is currently developing her next show, Women Behaving Baldly.  This will be a multi-media performance piece, encompassing intensive Skype interviews with women around the world, utilizing a template similar to the one established by Eve Ensler in The Vagina Monologues.