NEW BOARD MEMBER: Omar Perez

ArtsConnection is delighted to welcome our newest board member, Omar Perez. 

Alum of the ArtsConnection Young Talent Program (Bronx Middle School)
Former Teaching Artist

Omar Perez is an actor, director, and educator. He began his performance career began with the internationally recognized Pregones Theatre (partial list): The Red Rose starring Grammy winner Danny Rivera (winner of the 2006 HOLA award for Best Musical), The Beep (winner of the 2007 HOLA award for Best Ensemble) and Dancing In My Cockroach Killers (Off-Broadway). Other stage credits include Passion Nation, DC7 The Roberto Clemente Story (Off Broadway), The Wizard of Oz, and Man of La Mancha. He is a 2017 ACE award nominee for his work as Sancho Panza in Miguel Will. His one-man show Rhapsodia, has been presented at several NYC festivals. Recent T.V. credits include Younger (TVland), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS) Power, Ray Donovan (Starz network) Russian Dolls (Netflix) and Search Party (TBS). His original piece: The Nurture Chamber, was part of the inaugural EdTalks by conceptual Artist Ed Woodham.  

Omar’s focus as a director is in the development of collaborative and conceptual new works. American Made (Samuel French Festival) BBG by Christin Eve Cato (City Arts Corps Project) Salt Flats ( Downtown Urban Arts Festival) Mama Bear and her Cubs, by Juan Ramirez Jr, Embracing Bethlehem/ Abrazos a Belén (Touchstone Theatre’s Festival Unbound), The Names, In 5 Beats; a collaboration between LaMama and Pregones Theatre showcasing beatboxers and actors lead by Omar and renown Beatrhymer Kid Lucky. Manchild Machismo, (Off Broadway, Winner of 2016 Hola Audience Favorite for Best Direction) 3 Is Enough, an international collaborative project between theaters representing The Bronx, Belgium, South Africa, and Peru, Name and Blame Inc. by Ricardo Perez-Gonzalez, and Breath to Breath, by Michael Wells-Oakes.  

As an educator, Omar has worked with ArtsConnection, Lincoln Center Education, People’s Theatre Project, Creative Arts Team, The Center for Arts Education, Pregones Theatre, Touchstone Theater and as an individual artist for NYCDOE. Populations taught include grades 2-12, College and University workshops, Incarcerated youth at Rikers Island, residents in domestic shelters and Lifelong learners. He has also served as joker in Forum theatre based on Theater of the Oppressed work of Augusto Boal. He is a former Arthur Miller Foundation Mentor for first and second-year NYCDOE theatre teachers and former Shubert Foundation adjudicator for their Annual High School festival. Omar is the current Assistant Director of Arts and Enrichment for the South Mountain YMCA.