For those who attend the theater with any regularity, it’s practically impossible to avoid VICTORIA PEREZ. The actor, dancer, writer and director has become a familiar presence on Western New York stages, starring in Subversive Theatre Collective’s “Twilight,” O’Connell and Company’s “Four Guys Named Jose and Una Mujer Named Maria” and “The Wiz” and writing and directing a TheatrePlus production of “Inside Out: A Dansical,” all in the past five months. “The Wiz” runs through Feb. 14 in the Administration Building of Erie Community College’s North Campus (6205 Main St., Williamsville) and “Inside Out” runs through Sunday in the Main Street Cabaret (672 Main St.).

Perez attended high school at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts and later earned a degree from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. In addition to her theater career and raising a 3-year-old son with her husband, Perez also works locally as a part-time teaching artist. She recently took a short break from her whirlwind schedule to talk about her new projects and her ascendancy on Buffalo’s theater scene.

How do you keep your head straight through all the stuff you’re doing lately?

Smart planning and good support at home. I have a 3-year-old son and I have a very supportive husband who takes over every night as I go to [performances and rehearsals]. That’s the only way I can do it.

You’re kind of helping to fill in a gap on the Buffalo theater scene, which is Latino theater. Are you interested in doing explicitly Latino work, or at least in filling in that gap?

I am interested in filling in that gap, but I am not interested in that being the only thing I can do. That is always the issue with someone who expresses interest in that. You get pigeonholed into like, “OK, we need a Latina. Let’s call Vicki.” Which has been what’s happened. With every role, they ask me, “OK, can you do this with a Spanish accent? How do you say this in Spanish?”

So it is something I’m constantly fighting against. But you know, I do know that you have to pay your dues first in order to get some more experience in order to say, “Can we try to do this a different way?” It’s all a matter of time and gaining the experience and gaining the relationship with the producers in order to be able to say, “Can we try this a little differently?”

Do you feel like you are proving yourself ?

I feel like I am. I think I am. Tell me a little bit about

“Inside Out,” because this is definitely an unexpected project on a number of levels.

It was as simple as me loving musical theater and then finding the love of dance, with my cousin, who is [choreographer] Veronica Irene. It goes back to family. I said, listen, I have this idea of telling a story through dance. The character Lucia is Veronica. It is inspired by her story. Ever since the summer, we would get together once a week, and we would just talk about possibilities. I wanted to do like a little concert, like one story, one scene. And then it just turned into a full-length production.

What’s up next? I am very grateful that I am done with this season. I have been going straight since July of last year, starting with “Twilight.” I haven’t stopped. So I need to be back with my family and spend some time with my family. It’s been a lot.

—Colin Dabkowski