Michele Carlo a.k.a. @Michele_asShell is an author/storyteller/comedy-adjacent performer who has appeared across the U.S., including NPR with Latino U.S.A., the Clearwater Music & Arts Festival, RISK! live shows and podcast, PBS’ Stories from the Stage, and the MOTH's GrandSlams and Mainstage in NYC (full artistic resumes upon request). Many of Michele’s early Moth stories appear in her book Fish Out Of Agua: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks, published by Citadel/Kensington in 2010. Other essays, stories and articles can be found in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood's Lost & Found: Stories From New York, SMITH magazine, Huffington Post, Chelsea Community News and Radio Free Brooklyn, among others.
Michele also writes and performs solo shows, and is best known for her adaptation of Fish Out Of Agua — which includes traditional Puerto Rican folktales along with her personal stories, and a tale about the gentrification of Park Slope, Brooklyn called “There Goes The Neighborhood.” She is featured in PBS’ 2015 Emmy award-winning documentary “Latino Americans of NY & NJ,” 2016’s “66th & Broadway New York Stories,” and the 2018 season of WGBH-The World Channel’s storytelling show” Stories from the Stage.” As a film actor, she’s in Heather Quinlan’s quintessential documentary about the New York City accent, “If These Knishes Could Talk (2013) and Eliza Cossio’s acclaimed dark comedy short “La Bruja” (2019).
In her “free time,” Michele works with freeform internet radio station Radio Free Brooklyn, where she hosted the weekly show,“Fish Out Of Agua with Michele Carlo” (2016-2019), at first serializing her book, later interviewing a different artist of color, acronym or differing ability on their trajectories to their current work each week. The radio show is currently on hiatus, but the 101 episodes remain as a podcast available on Radio Free Brooklyn and Apple Podcasts, with select episodes on PodOmatic
She also curates, produces and hosts storytelling shows, including NYC’s first (and some say best) all native-New Yorker story series, "It Came From New York," (2005-present), The New York Story Exchange (2014-2019) and “Super Story Party” (with Eric Vetter’s NoName & a Bag ’O Chips, 2013-present).
Here are some press and reviews.
