This is all too common in our field: A friend of mine booked an awesome gig on a television show and after the beautiful high of getting to set and doing her thing, she gets cut down to a line when it airs. It happens all the time. We spend months, even years cultivating relationships and endless hours of audition after audition to finally get booked in a show with a few scenes and you get hacked out. As a sensitive actor who takes pride even in the tiny roles that color the world of the story you are telling,…
Author: Tanya Perez
Tanya Perez
Tanya Perez is an actress, writer & activist currently living in NYC. Notable TV and film credits include Orange Is the New Black, Jessica Jones, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary & Hal Hartley's Ned Rifle opposite Parker Posey. Her most notable stage appearances were in Seattle Rep's production of Anna in the Tropics, Sonia Flew at both CATF and Laguna Playhouse, and her sold-out solo show at the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Comedy content creation has brought her web series Itty P & DJ Model-T nominations for two StayTuned TV-ITVF awards for Best Comedy and Best Actress in a Comedy, her comedy short, Peep Show, was an official selection at the 2018 Women in Comedy HBO Insider Competition, her short, Veronica, is up for 6 award nominations for the 2018 Story Mode Shorts Festival, winning Best Actress and will be premiering at Cannes 2018. She has received an Audioverse Award nomination in writing in Cocotazo’s CAT festival. Not only that, she is also incredibly talented with balloons, laughs inappropriately during movies, and loves her four-legged roommate Tia Tortilla. Proud member of NYWIF, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, SAGAFTRA & Actors Equity.
I got off the phone with my dad just the other day and one thing that kept running in my head was his impression of what I do all day. He’s a hard working man and provided for us like anyone in his generation did: you get a good job, work 9 to 5 and went home to your family. Well, I chose a different path of working as an actress in this beautiful city that takes disco naps and cranks out Seamless delivery orders for just about any cuisine your belly could imagine. So when I hear the slightest…