Carlos Jerome's plays have been produced by various theaters and have won several awards around the country. A Lower East Side boy, Carlos studied acting with Anne Allen, playwriting with Mark O'Donnell, Stewart Spencer and Allen Davis III. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Playwrights, Harlem Playwrights 21, Times Square Playwrights, SLC Playwrights. He has taught playwriting for Around The Block, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and for Latin American Theatre Ensemble at the Museo del Barrio. He was on the editorial team for the Simon & Schuster International English-Spanish Spanish-English Dictionary. His early work, Booked, was awarded second place in the Chicano-Latino Literary Prize of 2001-2002 (University of California – Irvine).  His The Pain Inside and  Counting Pedestals were published in, respectively, The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2017 and The Best 10-Minute Plays, 2021  (Smith & Kraus).  Cada Loco has been published in the 2021-2022 Journal of the Pirandello Society of America.

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