Former teen immigrant from Argentina now a Shakespeare star in Wisconsin

Posted June 6, 2018

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Mike Fischer, Special to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

June 6, 2018 |

Core Company member Melisa Pereyra and Artistic Director Brenda DeVita discuss Melisa's journey to APT with Mike Fischer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Half a lifetime ago, actor Melisa Pereyra immigrated to Idaho from Argentina as a 14-year-old. She was an orphan, taken in by foster parents. She was poor. And she didn’t speak a word of English; she’d encountered Shakespeare only in translation.

Now 31, Pereyra is a core company member at American Players Theatre, where she’ll take on two of the most prominent female roles in Shakespeare’s canon this summer.  

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