Carolyn Castiglia
Bio

Carolyn is a talented, energetic and versatile comedian and writer living in New York City. Her work has been seen and heard nationally on VH1, BestWeekEver.tv, MTV2, MTVU, Nick-at-Nite, ABC World News with Charles Gibson and Sirius Satellite Radio.

Carolyn has performed at the top clubs in New York including Comix, Caroline’s, Gotham, Comic Strip Live!, Laugh Factory, The Improv, Laugh Lounge and Stand Up New York in addition to her appearances at the Comedy Café in Amsterdam.

Miss CKC (as she's sometimes known... while throwin' down a mad freestyle rap) is a staple of New York's underground scene, where she's graced the stage at Ars Nova, PS 122, Mo Pitkin's, RiFiFi, Galapagos, D-Lounge, Ace of Clubs, The Tank, Bowery Poetry Club, UCB, Magnet Theatre and The PIT on shows such as Mortified, The WYSIWYG Talent Show, Sweet Paprika, The Shark Show, Drink at Work, The Rejection Show, School Night, Comedy is for Humans and Oh, Hello. In the summer of 2006, Carolyn also had the good fortune of performing at "the world's most beautiful traveling venue," Spiegeltent.

Carolyn is the co-producer and full-time host of the weekly showcase Chicks and Giggles (featured in the New Yorker, New York Times and BUST Magazine) and the MC of the monthly variety show Poetry vs. Comedy.

Blogging is an almost full-time passion for Carolyn; her humor blog has been recommended by Gawker several times and her baby blog, Adriana's Mom is a favorite of the editorial staff at Redbook. In addition to her contributions to Life & Style and The Idiot's Guide to Jokes, Carolyn has written comedy reviews of George Carlin's Life is Worth Losing and Lewis Black's Red, White and Screwed for the online journal Stage Time and reviewed Jessica Delfino's debut CD for the website Hello, Hilarious. She contributed the essays "A Prayer for my Grandmother" to The Huffington Post's Mother-Daughter Campaign and "High & Tight" to the Imagining Ourselves exhibit at the International Museum of Women.

As an actress, Carolyn has graced the stages of the New York International Fringe Festival (2003's Sex Myths and 2004's American Oligopoly) plus several regional theatres throughout the country. In 2005, she portrayed five different characters in the epic comedy Anathemaville at The Gene Frankel Theatre. In perhaps her crowning achievement, Carolyn is one of the subjects of the documentary PERFORM, a permanent installation at the Museum of the City of New York.

You can see her on SuperDeluxe.com in various sketches by The Post Show.