Biography
Andrew Joseph Perez is an actor, singer, fight choreographer, and true Jack-of-all-trades based in Los Angeles.
He's best known as Miss Salsa Roja in the feature film You Should Meet My Son 2! (2018), for originating the role of Phil in the world-premiere musical The Behavior of Broadus by the Burglars of Hamm and produced in association with Center Theatre Group, and as the guy who you can still occasionally catch on that TV above your treadmill at the gym playing an escaped convict on an episode of Investigation Discovery's Got to Be Part of the Texas Seven (2014).
Perez is the definition of a lifelong learner. He trained as a legitimate pro wrestler while preparing to play Mace in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, and not only learned to crack a bullwhip as Pedro in Man of La Mancha at A Noise Within, but to then continue studying and training with bullwhips until he learned to make his own custom whips by hand and perform tricky combinations of cracks clocking over 100 cracks per minute).
He's trained with Lesly Kahn, Daniel Henning, Sam Christensen, The Second City Hollywood, the Society of American Fight Directors, Los Angeles Fight Academy, and is a decorated graduate, Summa Cum Laude with Honors, from Seattle University's Drama program with a minor in Creative Writing, which he's used professionally as a playwright (Playground LA), sketch comedy writer and performer (Mornings and Mondays) and former adult fiction ghost writer (really).
His greatest points of pride, however, come from his advocacy work with the disabled community and with the Movember Foundation. Perez's younger brother was born with significant intellectual and physical disabilities, and growing up in that environment forged Perez to become the advocate he still is. He was recognized by Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamonte, once named the Sacramento Kings' "Player of the Game," and still spends a month each year raising awareness for the Spread the Word to End the Word campaign.
With Movember, Perez has raised nearly $20,000 over the last eight years since his father (who has now fully recovered) was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. If you saw any Movember advertisements in 2016, you saw Perez and his father featured on billboards, magazine ads, and online.
Perez is a director and producer having submitted films in both the 2017 24-Hour Film Race and the 48 Hour Film Project, Los Angeles. You can find his sketch comedy channel on YouTube (Mornings and Mondays). You can get in touch on Twitter (andrewjperez), Facebook (andrewjperez), or on Instagram where he posts an unending stream of whip videos and pictures (andrewjosephperez).
