Carlos has performed in local and regional theaters like Lincoln Center Theater, Dorset Theater Festival and Fringe New York where he performed his one-person show Homo Sapiens Interruptus in 2016. He has published essays in the Tablet, Mars Review of Books, n + 1 and in an anthology called New Jersey Fan Club on Rutgers University Press. Carlos directed his first short called Iowa in 2018, along with writing the screenplay, editing, scoring and performing as the lead. He scored the upcoming motion picture drama Sam’s World (2023) and the animation shorts series, Love Letters to the Subway (2023). His debut album of New Age compositions called Aqueduct was released in 2022, followed by the EP Ecospheres. His latest album, Private Earth, was released in June, 2023. He is a cofounder of, and was the original bass player and keyboardist for, the band Interpol and performed with the group until 2010. He was also a professional DJ in the 2000s during which time he performed at Coachella and Lollapalooza. He has a BA in Philosophy from the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University (1999) and he received his MFA in Acting from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in 2015.