Tanya Perez

Tanya Perez is a New York performer, writer & filmmaker. Perez has excelled as a creator on both stage and screen and her stand-out work has received many awards and mentions globally. She has appeared on several series like Evil, Orange Is the New Black & Jessica Jones. Stage credits include performances at Laguna Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and touring throughout Italy. Her first solo show, Honor & Fidelity, premiered to a sold out audience at the Cherry Lane Theater for the Downtown Urban Arts Festival. Her second solo show, Welcome to Clowntown, recently ran as The Tank's Core Production this Spring to critical acclaim. Awards include an Audioverse Award nomination for her audio play, Rincon and winner of the New Circle Theater Company’s LB Williams Playwriting Award 2022. Her films, Peep Show, was a finalist at the Women in Comedy HBO Insider Competition and Veronica, won ‘Best Actress’ at Story Mode Shorts Festival, ‘Best Screenplay’ and ‘Best Actress’ at Outlanta Con, and ‘Best Latinx Short’ at IndieFest. Fellowships: Latinx Playwrights Circle Inaugural Summer Jam Cohort at the Dramatist Guild, The Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab, Conch Shell Productions Artist Collective & DQT American Woman writing fellow. Proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and the Latinx Playwrights Circle. Forever a clown.