Marilyn Bagel is a versatile scriptwriter for major national events and multimedia, a playwright, and author who has been putting words in the mouths of high-profile people for years. She began her writing career as an award-winning advertising copywriter for print and broadcast.

From creating dramatic highpoints to comedic moments, Marilyn has the innate ability to get into others' minds, hearts and styles and has had the privilege of writing for many notable show hosts, narrators and participants, among them David Hyde Pierce, Candy Crowley, Jean Smart, Joan Cusack, Richard Roundtree, Linda Ellerbee, Lamman Rucker, James Earl Jones, Kathleen Turner, Chris Matthews, Willard Scott, and Ed McMahon.

Marilyn writes scripts and speeches for award shows, special events and conferences and works closely with key executives, corporate communications departments and event co-chairs. She also routinely coaches participants in Teleprompter usage during on-site rehearsals. She brings her same up-close-and-personal creativity and passion to scripting corporate, association and tribute videos and multimedia and has received several awards for her work, including three First Place 2008 Telly Awards for the Alzheimer's Association's "LifePrints: First Lady Laura Bush," a Second Place 2006 Telly Award for "LifePrints: A Montage" and two 2005 Telly Awards for "Remembering a Friend: A Tribute to Ronald Reagan" featuring Michael Deaver, former Reagan deputy chief of staff, advisor and longtime family friend. Marilyn was named one of the Women of Achievement in 2007 by the Montgomery County Business and Professional Women during National Business Women’s Week (click here for more info).

As a playwright, Marilyn has written three plays performed by Imagination Stage's WINGS COMPANY, a by-audition-only ensemble of adult actors with disabilities. These include, "I Thought the Rain Was Supposed to Stop" and "Love Is a Disability", both of which tackle life's challenges with Marilyn's typical blend of humor, poignancy, and universality. In her "Little Red Radish Hood" performed at Imagination Stage's Edgefest 2007, characters from this fairytale mash-up succeed in convincing the wolf to become a vegetarian. Marilyn also wrote the screenplay "Imagine Working," funded by the U.S. Department of Education, which creatively instructs people with disabilities in how to find employment.

As a writer who married a "Bagel," it was only a matter of time before she wrote books about her namesake. Marilyn is the author of The Bagel Bible: For Bagel Lovers, the Complete Guide to Great Noshing, (The Globe Pequot Press 3rd edition, 1998; second edition 1995; first edition 1992).