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Yareli Arizmendi
is an award winning actress, director, and producer.
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Award winning actress, writer and producer, Yareli Arizmendi is best known for her performances as “Rosaura” in “Like Water for Chocolate” and “Lila Rodriguez” in “A Day Without a Mexican” which she also co-wrote and co-produced. Other films include “Don’t Let Me Drown” by Cruz Angeles,  “América” by Sonia Fritz with Eddie Olmos, “Fast Food Nation” by Rick Linklater and “Naco Es Chido” by Sergio Arau which she co-produced as well.  In her 30+ year career she starred in numerous American episodic shows beginning with NYPD Blue, all the way up to “House”, “Medium”, “24,” “Six Feet Under,” and “Heroes.”  She has lent her voice to many products, public awareness campaigns and audio books including The Alchemist, Like Water for Chocolate, The Law of Love and MALINCHE.

Her experience with documentary filmmaking sharpened her interviewing skills.  A partial list of those interviewed by her includes, Noam Chomsky, Jesse Jackson, Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine) Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize winner - The Brief Life of Oscar Wao), Lila Downs, Maria Hinojosa, Rigoberta Menchú, Amy Goodman (host of Democracy Now), and John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man).  Yareli is presently working on a novel entitled The Story of Y: A Curious Memoir – a personal story bringing a bi-national, bi-cultural socio-political reality into sharp focus through the eyes of a young girl.  She is also working on the script Another Day Without a Mexican: This time it’s personal due to go into production in 2016.

 

Yareli worked extensively at the Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory and The Mark Taper Forum among others, both as actress and dramaturg developing new work for the stage.  Her list of translated Latin American plays and novels is extensive.  Her solo shows Nostalgia Maldita: 1-900- Mexico and Who Buys Your Shoes? toured universities in the United States and Mexico, as did Penny Envy: A Freudian Approach to the Free Trade Agreement as part of the Performance Art Network.

 

A Mexican-Cuban born in Mexico City, Yareli received her BA in Political Science and her MFA in Theatre at the University of California, San Diego.

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