Carmen Pelaez
After graduating American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Carmen Peláez wrote her first solo play Rum & Coke which she performed to raves in NY, LA, Chicago and Miami culminating in an award winning off Broadway run in 2008.
In 2012, Carmen Peláez won the HBO NYLFF Short Film Competition with The Acting Lesson, which she co-directed and followed up with her short, A Queen Without His Crown and most recently directed the short, Mango Season for which she received an honorable mention at the 2020 Miami International Film Festival. IN 2020 she was commissioned by Oolite to create the short doc Caridad y Gallo as part of their Close Quarters Series.
Miami post Brooklyn has been a joy after having found a theatrical home at Miami New Drama at the Colony theater which premiered her play Fake in 2019, commissioned Strapped for its Seven Deadly Sins in 2020, winner of the 2020 Drama League Award and commissioned her new play The Cuban Vote set to open in April of 2022 which she will also star in.
To compliment her narrative work, she consulted on Netflix's One Day at a Time, the Story House Juguetes Perdidos project and Apple TV's Little America. She also was a contributor for NBC Latino and has written essays for Marie Claire, Huffington Post and the New York Times.
Carmen has proudly worked on President Barack Obama's Cuba policy team and is on President Biden's Cuba advisory team.
In 2022, she is developing a series Tropical Beasts as well as her first feature, Caridad.