Rosie Perez will join Mary-Louise Parker and Debra Monk in the Manhattan Theatre Club/Second Stage co-production of Reckless. Broadway.com has learned that Perez has been tapped to play Pooty, a paraplegic, in the Craig Lucas play.
Perez is best known for her distinctive voice and her accomplished movie career. Her screen credits include Do The Right Thing, Untamed Heart, White Men Can't Jump, Fearless for which she received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, It Could Happen to You, Perdita Durango, The 24 Hour Woman, Human Nature and Riding in Cars with Boys. She made her Broadway debut in 2003 in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Perez earned a 2001 Theatre World Award for her performance off-Broadway in References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot at the Public Theater. She has also appeared on the Gotham stage in Union City, New Jersey, Where Are You? at the Ensemble Studio Theater, The Vagina Monologues and The Play What I Wrote for which she served as a guest star.
Reckless, directed by Mark Brokaw, is scheduled to begin Broadway previews at the Biltmore Theatre on September 22 in preparation for an October 14 opening.