CARLA KATZ is a Jersey born and bred storyteller, playwright, actor, voice artist, and comic living in Hoboken. Her play Raccoons was the winner of the 2024 Players Theater Short Play Festival. Her play, The Swan, was selected for the New York Theater Festival Summerfest 2022. Her solo show, ANGELINA, debuted at the SOLOCOM 2019 Comedy Festival at the Peoples Improv Theater. Her solo show BODY PARTS sold out at the SOLOCOM 2017 Comedy Festival.  She is a Moth StorySLAM Champion and has been heard on The Moth Radio Hour. She has performed widely in New York including at the Comedy Cellar, the Fat Black Pussycat, Story Collider, The Liar Show, The AWFNH Show at the Kraine Theatre, NYC’s Secrets and Lies and Generation Women at Caveat, Sideshow Goshko, and a wide a variety of shows at the Magnet Theater and the Tank. She has also performed across New Jersey including in Hoboken's On The Waterfront Storytelling Series, Word of Mouth Storytelling by the Bucks Country Playhouse in Lambertville, and This Really Happened at the Hopewell Theatre. Carla is co-producer with Adam Wade of the Hoboken-based On the Waterfront Storytelling Series. By day, she is also a labor lawyer, professor, and union leader.