Perri Yaniv

Born and raised in Harlem and Washington Heights, Mr. Yaniv has worked consistently in the New York theater and film scene for almost a decade in a variety of independent projects. His multi-faceted looks have allowed him to convincingly portray a seemingly limitless array of demographic backgrounds and personality types. Never shying away from a challenge, he has portrayed an early 20th century German pianist ("A Man's World"), learned Italian to portray Mussolini in "Power of the Trinity"; learned Yiddish to portray a young Hasidic tahara (in the forthcoming "Purity"), lost weight to portray a young heroin addict trying to come clean ("Chinese Rocks"), and explored physical catatonics to portray the developmentally challenged younger brother to Christian Chase's lead character in the Celluloid Rain Productions feature, "Delivery Hour". Yaniv's passion for acting was sparked in high school, where he was enrolled with a number of international students and teachers, and performed in plays by Shakespeare, Brecht, and Dostoevsky. At Wesleyan University, he successfully completed a double-major in Sociology and Theater, and was awarded High Honors for his solo project "Word Infirmia," based on interviews he'd conducted with prison inmates, ex-cons and victims of crime, utilizing the methodology and performance techniques of Anna Deavere Smith and Marc Wolf. This project was picked up for the New York International Fringe Festival and was later presented in Boston and Montreal. Since then, he has appeared in over 30 theater productions with Obie-winning and Drama Desk-nominated companies such as Metropolitan Playhouse, Brave New World, Medicine Show, Marvell Repertory Theatre, and Nicu's Spoon Theatre Company.