Michael Diaz(III)

With his high ¬energy physical style of comedy, Michael "Juan Bago" Diaz has evolved throughout the years into a versatile entertainer. In 2006, Michael wrote, produced and starred in his first independent film "The Story of Juan Bago." Which was in 3 film festivals The success of the slapstick ¬humored film led to Michael's involvement with various projects as a producer, actor and host. For years Diaz worked on Room 28 Comedy, where he served as both a producer and talent. He has studied at the famed Upright Citizens Brigade to perfect his comedy and improvisation skills. He then worked on various projects ranging from producing and starring in the short film, "Act of Love" to working as a personality for Nuvotv's series Latino101,MTV Tr3s Chisme Club & HBO Latino's series Habla Ya! Parts 1 & 2. His Parody Group "Juan Bago and O" created the viral hits "Pan con Queso", "Dominis in the Heights", "Hooked on Hookah". Coverage of his videos have been featured in The New York Daily News, Telemundo, Yahoo News, Billboard.com, and the video on rotation on Mun2, MtvTr3s and Music Choice while accumulating over 2 million views. Michael worked with Lipton and Remezlca to host Brisk Bodega Chat a series traveling the country interviewing up and coming artists. He produced and starred "Studio Heads webisodes which was featured in Daily news & Splitsider.com , a co¬star in the Award Winning Webseries "Henry". His work on Univision's, "Flama" channel, including videos that went viral like "Puerto Ricans vs Dominicans" & "Dominican Uber" which combined for over 20 million views. He is a part of the Voto Latino family of talent where he speaks on panels across the country educating young activists on how to create engaging content. Michael was recently chosen by Verizon Wireless to star in a campaign called #Lomejordemi, spotlighting Latinos in their industries. He is co-founder of Room28 Comedy group that performs live and film sketches. He has an award winning podcast with Rachel Strauss Muniz called "Latinos out loud" on the Revolver Podcast Network and you can see some of his content on Broadway Video's Mas Mejor, Buzzfeed's Pero like and Mitu.