CARLA NAGER

Carla Nager was born and raised in Long Beach, Long Island where everyone she knows is 2 degrees of separation from Billy Crystal. She has been performing comedy and improv for over 3 decades at New York establishments such as The Comic Strip Live, The Peoples Improv Theater and Magnet Theater among others. In 2012, her autobiographical show, "The Carla Show: This is What I Do," combined original music, classic sketches, baton twirling, and hip hop and she got “jiggy with it” to sold-out houses every night.

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Carla was also an invited musical guest in Ali Farahnakian’s (Owner, Peoples Improv Theater) Labor Day Show, and guest improviser in Megan Gray’s (Magnet Artistic Director) We Might Just Kiss.

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Theatrically, she received critical praise for her performance as Miss Sasslebaum in the award-winning "Someone to Belong To," an original musical featured in the FringeNYC Festival.

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Carla is currently streaming on Amazon Prime in "The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side." She also appeared as Anna, in the pilot "From Adam," a finalist in the New York Television Festival. She's also worked alongside Peter Mele (The Sopranos) as a recurring principal role in the web series, "Bocce Ballers," playing the Staten Island matriarch, Patritzia Bianchi. You may also have seen her in videos on Mashable and Univision's LaFlama.

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With a B.S. in Music Ed from Duquesne University, Carla teaches piano and secondary instruments in her spare time throughout the tri-state area and has been a freelance columnist and food editor. Her proudest accomplishment is her family and she apologizes every time they become fodder for her comedy.