Raquel Araujo

Raquel Araujo Madera is a Mexican actress, playwright and theatre director. She's a founder of both the Department of Scenic Arts in the Instituto [de Cultura de Yucatán] and the Center of Scenic Research of Yucatán, as well as Teatro [La Rendija]. She has been a member of the Artistic Advisory Council of the National Theatre Company of Mexico.

Career

Araujo founded the Teatro La Rendija in 1998 and has been its art director ever since. In 1998 she premieres her play Horizones de Sucesos, and in 2001, Óvalo. Between 1997 and 2001 she was the he was Information and Dissemination Coordinator for the Rodolfo Usigli National Center for Theater Research. In 2002 she founded the Department of Scenic Arts in the Instituto de Cultura de Yucatán and the Center of Scenic Research of Yucatán. She also founded the Department of Scenic Arts of the Universidad de las Artes de Yucatán, where she's also a professor.
She's done various presentations in the Muestra Nacional de Teatro, as well as other international showcases with plays such as Estrategias fatales, Condesa Sangrienta, Los errores del subjuntivo, Vitrinas, La importancia del llamarse Ernesto, Uncle Vanya, Viñetas Chejovianas y Medea Múltiple.
Raquel's technique follows the dramatic proposals of Gabriel Weisz Carrington, better known as "theatre of the body".