Undergraduate Studies

BA in Humanities

graduate Studies

MFA in Lecoq-based actor created theatre

performance trainings

London International School of Performing Arts - LISPA

SITI Company 

Panthéâtre - ROYART International Artistic Center

Young Vic Genesis Directors Program 

Interests 

Original stage creations and devised theatre (collective creation)

Voice Mentors

Hebe Rossel - MX          
María Huesca - UK          
Joyce Wells - US

Directed in countries

Spain, Germany, Hungary, UK, USA and Mexico.

Born into a well-known family of artists, Yuriria Fanjul grew up in Mexico City absorbing and following the creative footsteps of her family’s spirit. She was mentored from an early age by her grandfather, actor & composer, Ferrusquilla, and her aunt, Angélica Aragón.

After graduating with a BA in Humanities specializing in Contemporary French Philosophy, Art History and Voice studies (UDLAP), she studied a two-year Physical Theatre Masters Degree at the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) in collaboration with Naropa University.

In 2010 she co-founded En Canta Teatro, a London based opera company that would create physical-theatre and live-music performances, as well as promote Latin American talent in Europe.

In the UK, Fanjul participated in theatre and opera trainings at the Young Vic, the English National Opera (ENO), the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) and Iford Arts Opera Festival, including a workshop of contemporary opera Powder her Face by Thomas Adès, and assisting Chris Cowell and Pia Furtado’s directions in Massenet’s Cendrillon and Handel’s Susanna respectively.

With a strong passion for both Baroque and Contemporary music, Fanjul worked as a director or movement director for operas such as Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Britten’s Turn of the Screw, Liquid History, Clive, The Leap in the Dark and Adrift (Gestalt Arts), and La Creciente by Georgina Derbez (Festival Internacional Cervantino).

Original stage creations include Filigrana de papel, Red, El tejido de los sueños, Cabared, and The Contemporary Theatre Museum. Devised projects include, Herencia Española, The Lord of the Rings, Cabared, The Aleph and Qué pasa contigo Juanita.

As an actress, Fanjul has performed in festivals such as Shakespeare at The White Bear, The Nursery Festival, BE Festival, CASA Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Festival Internacional Tamaulipas.

As a soprano, Fanjul was part of the choir Coro de Cámara de la UDLAP singing in venues such as El Palacio de Bellas Artes and La Sala Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico) amongst many others, and in festivals such as América Cantat IV (Mexico), Corhabana (Cuba) and Florilège Vocal de Tours (France) where the choir received two awards and further on recorded two CDs with Quindeccim Records.

For two years she was head of the Music Department at an international not-for-profit cultural organization in the US, and studied North-Indian Harmonium and Raga with Daisy Paradis.

Currently, Fanjul works as an independent actor, director and performing arts coach for singers internationally. She produces her personal projects, and promoting arts education and collective creation in Mexico.

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

Stay in Mexico - Ópera 360º

Creator-Librettist-Artistic director-producer

Original Multimedia Opera with MusicaUNAM

Pro Ópera Mexico

Lecturer

Series of Masterclasses on how to create New Opera - Mexico City

Rozana Montiel

Public Speaking Coach

Something from Nothing - Cornell University, Ithaca NY

Humanizing the City - Urban spaces, Urban age, LSE, London

Happenstance - Architecture League NYC

Hojas en Blanco - San Ildefonso, Mexico City

Fernanda S. Rojo

Physical theatre Coach

Master in Lied Victoria de los Ángeles - ESMUC - BCN

Camille Claudel

Actor

National Tour - Festival Teatro a Una Sola Voz - INBAL - Mexico

Fourth Season- Sistema de Teatros de CDMX Teatro Benito Juárez,Mexico

Rozana Montiel

Public Speaking Coach

Entretejiendo el espacio social - Oaxaca, Mexico

Arquitectura después del covid - Arca Talks, Arquine

Sobre el juego - Fábrica de Ciudad - Mexico

Arquitectura después de la pandemia - Mextrópoli, Mexico

Movimiento en el Espacio Doméstico - Fábrica de Ciudad - Mexico

Jimena Reyes Batres

Acting/Physical theatre Coach.

Preparation for auditions at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Esa persona (stage-promenade) - Buenos Aires, Argentina.

narrator - guide

Seis Herencias (TV-series) - Mexico

Writer

Dido and Aeneas (opera) - Opera by Henry Purcell - Festival de México en el Centro Histórico - Online Streaming - Mexico

Stage Director

Las agujas dementes, by Jorge Volpi (stage reading) - Feria del Libro de Oaxaca. Dir. Angélica Rogel - Mexico

Actor

Fábrica de Ciudad (academic) - Group workshop on creativity, for architects. With Rozana Montiel. - Mexico

Teacher

The Monobox Theatre - (academic) UK

workshop leader

Persuasive Communication (academic) - personal coaching for public speaking - Mexico

Coach

Introduction to physical theatre online workshop (academic) - TeatroUNAM - Mexico

Teacher

Dido and Aeneas (opera) - Opera by Henry Purcell - Festival IM.PULSO - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Stage Director

An opera of Daniel (opera revival) - Opera by Edward Lambert - Solistas Ensamble - Teatro Julio Castillo CCB - INBA - Mexico

Stage Director

Camille Claudel (stage) - One woman show written by Gaël LeCornec - STAGE of the ARTS - Mexico

Actor

Albert Herring (opera) - Opera by Benjamin Britten - Solistas Ensamble INBA-CENART - Mexico.

Movement coach

Agustín el de Tlacotalpan - (cabaret) Homage to Mexican composer Agustín Lara - Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, México.

Actor-Singer

IM.PULSO Música Escena Verano UNAM - Performing Arts Festival Featuring Opera, - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

CO-CURATOR / Co-Producer

Javi's Home (stage). Dir. Angela Ciandro. National Queer Arts Festival, Santa Cruz & San Francisco, California, US.

Music Director, SINGER-Song Writer

El Halconazo, Un Poema Teatral (stage). Unidad de Vinculación Artística UVA-Tlatelolco, UNAM, Mexico.

Workshop leader - stage director

Requiem para Jesucristo Crucificado (stage) Dir. Maricela Lara. Secretaría de Cultura, Edo. De Guerrero, Taxco, Mexico.

Actress - Narrator/La VerónicA

Grupo Modelo (commercial) Kinesis Talents agency

Actress

Festival de la Cultura y las Artes en el ITESM Campus Puebla, Mexico.

Jury member

Liquid History (opera). Physical theatre opera by Ruth Mariner and Sarah Dacey, Gestalt ARTS, Totally Thames Festival, London

Movement director

IM.PULSO Performing Arts Festival featuring Opera, UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

CO-CURATOR / Co-Producer

L’Orfeo (opera) By Claudio Monteverdi, Ópera de Bellas Artes, Festival del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México

Movement director

Quartet by Jill Magid (performance art) MUAC, UNAM, México City

performer

Grupo HSBC (commercial) Ursula pruneda agency

Actress

Requiem para Jesus Crucificado (stage) Dir. Maricela Lara. Secretaría de Cultura, Edo. De Guerrero, Taxco, Mexico.

Actress - Narrator/La VerónicA

2016 - 2014

SYDA Foundation, New York, US

Music Department Head

2015

La Creciente (opera) by Georgina Derbez, Festival Internacional Cervantino

Director

2014

Clive and Other Stories (opera)
Gestalt Arts, (dir. Ruth Mariner), UK

movement director

2013

Cendrillon (opera) Royal Academy of Music (dir.ChrisCowell),UK

assistant director

Powder Her Face (opera) by Thomas Adès - English National Opera, (dir. Joe Hill-Gibbins), London

Workshop participant    

Yerma Redux (feature film)   - Something Wicked Productions, London

Actress - Lavandera

¡Ay Querétaro! (short film) London Film School, London  

Actress - Carlota

Nursery rhymes in Spanish (CD) Baby Bright Eyes, Sheffield

Singer soloist

Nursery rhymes in French (CD) Language Monkeys, London

Singer soloist

2012

Susanna (opera) by Handel - Iford Arts Opera Festival (dir. Pia Furtado), Iford, UK

Assistant director  

The turn of the screw (opera) by Britten - Anglo Hungarian Opera Co., Budapest

Director

Dido and Aeneas (opera) by Purcell - En Canta Teatro, Music Hoschulle, Bremen

Director, producer

Is he a bit Simon Jay? (stage), Simon Jay Productions, Etcetera Theatre, London

Movement Director

Yerma (stage) Baron’s Court Theatre, London

Actress - Dolores, María

¿Qué pasa contigo Juanita? (stage) CASA Festival Scratch Night, Oval House, London

Actress - Juanita

The Tempest (stage) The White Bear Shakespeare, Stage Punk, London

Actress - Caliban    

Ruth a Making of (short film) Seven Shorts, dir. Simon Jay, London

Actress - Ruth 

2011

The Aleph (stage)   En Canta Teatro, CASAFestival Scratch Night, London

Deviser, Performer

Medea (stage) Sarah Chew/Duffy, Assembly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Actress - Chorus member

Asylum Monologues (stage)  The colour house, INSpire Entertainment, London

Actress - Angela, Olive

Agamemnon (stage) Courtyard theatre, London Actors Group, London

Actress - Chorus member

Still in Dreamland (short film) Kingston University, London

Actress - Desdemona – lead role

The Taste of Tears (stage) The Nursery Festival, Industrial Theatre, London UK

Guitarist, Singer