Meet Stuck Elevator's Joel Perez, whose credits include Showtime's The Big C with Laura Linney and the First Broadway National Tour of In the Heights.
Name: Joel Perez Roles: Marco, Bladder, Player, Resident Joel Perez Stuck Elevator runs April 4–28. Learn more about the production and order tickets. What are your preshow/postshow rituals? I like to do something physical before every show. Usually it's going for a run, yoga, or spinning. It gets the juices flowing! After a show, I like to enjoy some bourbon and Family Guy . What is your favorite thing about San Francisco? The landscape. It is a really nice change from the concrete jungle that is NYC. What is your favorite song and why? My favorite song is probably "Takeout Man." It's a fun song that leads up to a bad-ass wrestling match. The ensemble plays various characters to that draw out the complexity of the main character Guāng. Can you share one aspect of Guāng that is illuminated by your character(s)? Guāng's friendship with Marco is very special. They are both immigrants from opposite sides of the world, but their experience bri...