Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Edward Perdomo. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Edward thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

My first intervention in a play was when I was 11 years old, it all began at a summer camp where the director of the play we were doing, formed part of one of the biggest teather companies back in El Salvador, after that play in the summer camp she asked me if my mother agreed that id be part of the teather company she was part of, she agreed and my first professional play was in a kids play named “the ugly Duckling” I remembered I love the process of going three days a week to rehersals and then presenting everything we did in the past months to the public, even though I was still a child I still keep in my mind that feeling of the openning night, that was the first moment I realized I wanted to do that for the rest of my days, 18 years later I’m still feeling that way.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I started in Theater when I was eleven, at my 16 I discovered magic and pause my participations in plays because I wanted to become a magician and needed to focus a lot of time to learn how to do magic, I spent around one year and a half practicing everyday to be better at that, and when I was good enough I joined a magicians association where we organized diferent shows around the country (El Salvador), that help me to get my name to sound for diferent things back there, I had the knowledge that theater gave me and then abilities that being a magicician gave me, but still I had bills to pay including my studies in the university so I had to get a regular job as a Call Center Representative, answering emails and chats at the beggining and then calls where I was a Sales Representative of a American Company, one that I received a message from a TV Producer in my Facebook, she asked me to go and audition to be a TV host in a show made for Teens around 15 and in their 20s, I got accepted and lasted in that show for 4 years, in my second year I got offered another opportunity in a Radio show as a host and Disc Jockey, I learned how to operate the console of the music and how to do everything in the show by my own. In the middle of being a tv host and working in the radio, I decided to go back to my theater company and start acting again, they wellcomed me and now I was doing plays for adults and not so many plays for kids. just before the pandemic started I made the decision of leaving all my four works as a tv host, radio host, magician and actor in El Salvador and come to Mexico City, where I started taking acting classes and dedicating my time to pursue that dream of becoming an actor here. It was hard at the beginning beacuse we where in lockdown and not able to do anything but as time passed by, I begun knowing people and relationating myself with people from the industry, right now Im in a actors agancy and in a models agency for publicity, even though not all the days are as bright as we want, there are a lot of days that I really feel that my dream is working and that Im living the dream I wanted when I was back in El Salvador

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I believe that people in El Salvador is really creative and good at a lot of things and me being outside and being able to pursue something I really like makes me feel part of that people from El Salvador, I would like to be part of the salvadoreans around the glove that are making their people proud. Somehow be part of a bridge that connects the cinematographic industry to El Salvador which exist but is not big enough to produce as many films as Salvadorean artist would like.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

After 1 year of pandemic I decided I need to start doing some excersice and something that helped me to know Mexico City more, cause I came here and after 3 months we all went to lockdown, so I bought myself a bike to go around the city, on January 20th of 2021 I had an accident in that bike, the front wheel got broken while I was driving and I landed on the street with my face, I had three cracks in the skull and a 3 big scars on the rifght side of my face and a broken nose, at the moment I thought that my dream of becoming an actor was over, but on my way to the hospital I remembered I thought… wait a second, you’re still good, you have both eyes, no broken bones other then the cracks in the skull that will heal, I can still do everything I do, its just that Ill have a scar on my face but thats ok, maybe it makes me look a little bit bad, and laugh about it. 2 years from that accident you can barely see the scars and the look more like veins then scars, in the recovery process I was always optimistic and determined that such an accident will not determine if I make my dreams come true or not, right now Im still working on that to make it happen, but im sure that my approach to de situacion in such a positive way, made my body heal in a propper way.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @edwardperdomoo

Image Credits
EDWARD PERDOMO STILL 1 – “Jupiter 4” shortfilm EDWARD PERDOMO STILL 2 – “El Fondo” shortfilm