Tony Macy-Pérez is a Cuban-American actor, director and playwright.
His play “Raise Your Spirits” was a finalist at the Village Gate One-Act Festival in 1992.
Two of his plays, “Room for Three” and “50 Ways to Kill Your Diva”, had successful runs at the Café Trocadero in Greenwich Village.
The Theatre League of South Florida produced four of his plays in repertory as part of their Stages Under the Sun Festival.
In 1997, his plays “90 Miles of Separation” and “Requiem for a Life” initiated the first season of theatre at the Merkin Concert Hall at Lincoln Center starring Michael Irby, Teresa Yenque, Mimí Lazo, Steve Domínguez, Peter Sanders, Daniel Bort and Evelyn Calleja.
His play “Requiem for a Life” was also a finalist at the 2004 Summer Strawberry One-Act Festival and is now published in “The Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival Volume 3”.
He has directed plays in NYC, Miami and Atlantic City. He had two consecutive productions on Theatre Row, “Social Security” at the Clurman and “Days of Wine and Roses” at the Lion. He was invited to the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab West at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2007 and since then has been made a resident director at Endtimes, where in 2008 he was voted Best Director for “Title Fight” in their Vignettes for the Apocalypse Series.
He was nominated as best director for “Lick the Boot” at Endtimes Vignettes for the Apocalypse 2009 and had a successful run of “Sex on Trial” at the Duplex Cabaret.
As an actor he has worked with John Leguizamo in “She First Met her Parents on the Subway” at the Pearl Theatre and in two of Nilo Cruz’s first plays at Intar, “Adagio” and “A Bicycle Country”.
He starred in “The Great Confession” for Teatro Avante’s Hispanic Theatre Festival in South Florida and in “How Alfo Learned About Women” at the NY Fringe Festival.
He can be seen in the films “Marcus’ Story”, “The Diner” and “Synechdoche” with Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
He turned his play for “Requiem for a Life” into a short film that has recently wrapped shooting and is working on completing the movie version of “(90 Miles of Separation”
Last year he presented “90 Miles of Separation: at the NY Summerfest and directed “The Good, The Bad and the Fabulous” at HB Studios. He was nominated as Best Director for the Spanish-language version of “The Trapped Language of Love.”
Most recently he had a Zoom production of “90 Miles of Separation” available on YouTube.
