FULL PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY 2020

Carlos is a seasoned professional actor, grant writer, non‐profit administrator, teacher, and voiceover artist who has performed hundreds of times for thousands of patrons over the course of his career and has taught acting and improv for over 10 years. Carlos toured for two years with the Fantasy Theatre Factory, performing children’s theater in hundreds of schools and teaching workshops throughout the state of Florida. During this time, Carlos became a founding member of a theatre company and taught students as young as 5 years old in North Miami. Carlos served as lead sketch writer and performer for the variety show LIVE @ the Clevelander, a weekly live show on Miami Beach’s world‐famous Ocean Drive.

In December 2007, Carlos created a South Florida first: an improvisational comedy show designed specifically for children entitled Thinking On Your Head, Standing On Your Feet. Additionally, Carlos served as a mentor and teaching artist an internship program at Miami Dade College that helped over ten student‐written productions evolve from draft concept to full‐fledged performance.

Carlos has played a multitude of roles for South Florida audiences including as The Indian in Israel Horovitz’s The Indian Wants the Bronx, Katurian in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, Astrolog in Jim Camacho and Noel McNeal's Mouse King, the Barista in James Carrey’s In The Café @ Microtheatre, and as Geppeto in Actor’s Playhouse 2014 production of Pinocchio. Most recently, Carlos gave a critically acclaimed performance as KJ in Alliance Theatre's 2015 production of Annie Baker's The Aliens. With his friend Lucky Bruno, he’s also been a street performer and has an improv background performing with groups like Laughing Gas, THEY, and Chasing Tales. Carlos has worked with the Arts Radio Network Theatre Project presented by WLRN, which featured faithful live recreations of 1940’s and 50’s radio dramas. Audiences might remember him from previous productions of Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life (Multiple Roles) and Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds (Multiple Roles), and in Casablanca, Carlos had the privilege to play Rick Blaine, the role immortalized by Humphrey Bogart at the Abdo New River Room in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. 

In 2018, Carlos performed in Thinking Cap Theatre’s productions of classical plays such as Aristophenes’ Women in Assembly and The Emperor of the Moon by Aphra Behn, and later as the villainous Duke of Cornwall in Shakespeare’s King Lear. In the winter of that same year, Carlos played the part of sadistic 1961‐era CIA Agent Edward Johnson for Juggarknot Theatre Company’s Miami Motel Stories MIMO Edition, an immersive theatre experience unlike any other. In 2019 Carlos was part of the 2019 cast for City Theatre’s Short Cuts for Schools, performing throughout Miami‐Dade County Public Schools and at the Chapman Partnership.

In 2019, Carlos had the pleasure of providing the voice for Pulitzer Prize‐winning author John Lantigua’s short detective story, The Cuban Prisoner, which was featured on Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Podcast (February 2019).

In 2020, Carlos performed with Miami New Drama in their touring production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Also in 2020, Carlos performed the role of Lenny Milan, The Director, for Miami Motel Stories - North Beach. In April 2020, Carlos joined the cast of Terror on the Air, a horror-themed podcast presenting original stories in the style of classic radio dramas, written and produced by Travis Roig.

Carlos has worked as a teaching artist and educational program administrator for after‐school and summer programs for the ArtSouth organization. He later became a Teaching Artist for Arts 4 Learning MIami for 3 years, teaching acting, plot analysis, and production to children to hundreds of children across many schools using innovative techniques.

As part of the GETSmart Program, he also trained teachers to better incorporate the arts into core subjects. He is a graduate from Florida International University, Magna Cum Laude, with a B.A. in English. This year, Carlos delivered a summer teaching theatre arts residency for Arts 4 Learning’s pilot program, All Kids Included, which delivers arts educational programming to children with special mental, physical, and emotional needs in a camp environment.

Carlos has brought his experience working with special needs children to the All Kids Included program since 2014, experience that began with his very first job at the age of 15 providing tutoring and physical therapy assistance to a teenager living with cerebral palsy. Working on a one‐on‐one basis with this student for 2 years, Carlos came to deeply understand the challenges and the rewards of working with special needs children. This understanding would be brought to bear with his work with Arts 4 Learning Miami where Carlos experienced working with children living with physical, social, and learning difficulties including ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, and across the autism spectrum. Most recently, Carlos was trained and certified to teach for the national early childhood arts education curriculum Wolf Trap, which provides professional development for teachers in the field focusing on student populations from ages 3‐5.

Before leaving Miami to live abroad with his family, Carlos worked as a voiceover talent, dubbing international programming into English, work he continues to this day. Carlos returned to Miami in 2014 where he has remained active since.