This is my bio, written in third-person for professional purposes. Between you and me, internet, I hate shit like this:
Carolyn Castiglia is a talented, energetic and versatile comedian and writer based in New York City. Her work has been seen and heard nationally on NBC, VH1, BestWeekEver.tv, MTV2, MTVU, Nick-at-Nite, ABC World News with Charles Gibson and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Carolyn performs stand-up all over New York, in both alternative venues and mainstream clubs including Comix, Caroline’s, Gotham, Comic Strip Live!, The (former) Laugh Factory, Broadway Comedy Club, Laugh Lounge and Stand Up New York. From time to time she even slings jokes at the Comedy Cafe in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Ik hou van Holland!)
Miss CKC, as much of America knows her from her hilarious stints "rapping," is a staple of New York's underground scene, where she's graced the stage at Ars Nova, PS 122, (the late, great) Mo Pitkin's, RiFiFi, Galapagos, D-Lounge, Ace of Clubs, The Tank, Bowery Poetry Club, UCB Theatre, Magnet Theatre and The PIT on such lauded shows as The Rejection Show, Mortified, The WYSIWYG Talent Show, Automatic Vaudeville, Sweet Paprika, Stripped Stories, The Shark Show, Drink at Work, High School Talent Show, School Night, Comedy is for Humans and Oh, Hello. Her show, Chicks and Giggles (featured in the New Yorker, New York Times and BUST Magazine, co-produced with Nichelle Stephens) enjoyed a very successful and long run at Mo Pitkin's and Ochi's Lounge at Comix.
In addition to her contributions to Life & Style magazine's Style Slip-Ups section and The Idiot's Guide to Jokes, Carolyn's writing has been featured in Time Out New York (Joke of the Week) and the New York Post's, "KILLER JOKES." Her humor blog has been recommended by Gawker and her baby blog was voted a favorite by the editorial staff at Redbook. She authored the essay, "A Prayer for my Grandmother" for The Huffington Post's Mother-Daughter Campaign and was honored to contribute "High & Tight" to the Imagining Ourselves online exhibit of 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. Carolyn is enormously proud to be one of the subjects of the documentary PERFORM, a permanent installation at the Museum of the City of New York.
Catch her on SuperDeluxe.com in various sketches by The Post Show.