Gerianne Pérez

Gerianne Pérez is an American musical theatre actress born on September 5, 1990, in Washington, where she attended Spanaway Lake High School. During her teenage years, Pérez considered pursuing medicine, with aspirations of attending an Ivy League institution and becoming a neurologist. She changed course in her senior year of high school, choosing instead to pursue a career in performance. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2013, completing the conservatory program at CAP21 alongside her degree. Pérez is of Puerto Rican descent.

Her professional career began in 2013 with a role in the Signature Theatre production of Volleygirls, which featured Julia Knitel, Susan Blackwell, and Monica Raymund. Later that same year, she played Chloe, the romantic lead, in Bubble Boy at Hamilton Stage at Union County Performing Arts Center. In 2014, she took on the role of Rizzo in Grease at North Shore Music Theatre, and in 2015 she performed a solo concert at 54 Below. The following year, Pérez joined the a cappella group Vocalosity for their first national tour and starred as Vanessa in a production of In the Heights at the Hangar Theatre.

Pérez made her Broadway debut in 2017 in the a cappella musical In Transit, where she played Kathy and understudied the role of Ali. She later reprised her performance on the production's cast album. That same year, she joined the first US national tour of Waitress as a swing and ensemble member, a tour that ran through 2019. In December 2019, she appeared as Evelyn Noel in Kris Kringle: The Musical at Proctor's Theatre. In April 2021, following the COVID-19 shutdown, Pérez returned to Waitress on Broadway as part of its re-staging, and she continued with the production through the 2022 US Residencies in North Carolina and Ohio.

In 2022, Pérez was cast as Catherine of Aragon in the original US Boleyn Tour of SIX: The Musical. Her Broadway credits span from 2016 to 2025 and include In Transit, Waitress, SIX: The Musical, and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical. In the Broadway production of Operation Mincemeat, Pérez serves as the first standby for the role of Ewen Montagu.