CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ, an award-winning poet and actor from New York City, has been described as "raw and intense...a rebel Don Juan with a sensitive edge" by Underrated Magazine.  A former social worker in Harlem and the south Bronx and public school teacher in Philadelphia and Manhattan, Gómez has performed at over 100 colleges and universities and toured across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. 

Winner of the 2009 Artist of the Year Award at the Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, he is the 2006 Toronto International Poetry Slam Champion and co-stars in Spike Lee's #1 box office smash hit film "INSIDE MAN" (Universal Pictures) with a lead role alongside Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen.  Gómez appears on the 6th season of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry" - voted "Favorite Poet" of his episode by viewers.

GÓMEZ won a Rocky Mountain Emmy® Award for his starring role in the groundbreaking "Respect Yourself" television spots and appears on the third season of the popular Showtime series "The L Word."  He is a two-time National Poetry Slam Finalist - once as a member of the renowned Nuyorican Poets Café's Slam Team that finished 2nd, and later with the NYC/louderARTS Slam Team that finished 3rd in the U.S.  Most recently, he collaborated with Tony Award-winning tap dance legend Savion Glover at The Town Hall on Broadway.  Their much lauded performance, featured as part of the Nuyorican Poets Café's "Aloud and Alive at 35" anniversary show, brought the sold-out audience to their feet.

Over the past 8 years, Gómez has shared the stage with a diverse range of celebrated artists and icons, including Wyclef Jean, MC Lyte, Yosef Komunyakaa, Rosie Pérez, Pete Rock, Ntozake Shange, Toots and The Maytals, Immortal Technique, Reel Big Fish, Suzanne Vega, Saul Williams, and Mos Def.