Lucia Perez Rubalcaba: Theater

Ever since the age of 3, Lucia Perez has been involved in theater and has since then been engaged with the profession. Next year, she will be continuing to pursue her lifelong passion at New York University at the Tisch School of Arts.

One of the things she admires the most about theater is the consistency throughout her life. “When I was 8 my family moved from Spain to California, which was a time of a lot of change,” she said. “The thing that was consistent was that I kept doing theater. It kept me really grounded throughout those big changes so that’s why I stuck with it.”

Throughout Perez’s career, she’s been a part of multiple productions and was able to engage with her community.

“In elementary and middle school I was mainly a part of school shows,” she said. “At the end of middle school I began to branch out and did some shows at the Palo Alto Children’s Theater. They have something called the Playhouse Troop, where I was able to do community service by putting on little shows for little kids.”

During the summer of her junior year, Perez had the opportunity to go to a NYU theater program. “I did an NYU Tisch program and got college credits for their program,” she said. “I fell in love with the theater experience you can have at college and NYU is one of the best places in the world to do that. I always knew I wanted to do theater in college and that really solidified it for me. I got the chance to meet so many new people, and even work with a real film director to help him write a screenplay.”

—Written by Hila Livneh