Rachel Kara Perez (she/they/Rae) is an award-winning Queer, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx multidisciplinary artist, educator, and adoptee advocate who views the arts as an invaluable vehicle for healing and building community. A theatre artist, vocalist, mover, writer, and poet, her work spans multiple genres, contexts, and locales.

Rae is a classically trained vocalist who has a depth of range singing Musical Theatre, Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, and Opera.

Her appearances/performances include: The Kennedy Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Jazz @ Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Lincoln Center Celebrates The Bronx, Symphony Space, The Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway, The Apollo Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Café, BAM Café, St. John The Divine, Verdi Square Festival of the Arts in New York, NBC's Today Show, NY1, and an Actors' Equity National Tour.

She performed “Me Acuerdo de Ti,” a Tito Puente composition originally recorded by Celia Cruz, on the Latin-Grammy nominated CD "Tito Puente Live!" (2011) with the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Bobby Sanabria. 

She studied with Maitland Peters, Department Chair of Voice Studies at the Manhattan School of Music, and coach Shane Schag. She studied privately with Tony award-winner Victoria Clark, and Claudia Cummings of the New York City Opera. She is a member of Actors' Equity.