actor
writer
director
filmmaker
comic
speaker
DIANA
YANEZ
Diana Yanez, a fantastically funny woman, is a charming and personable story teller....
— NY Theater Review
projects (current)
LATINA CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - Creator/Writer/Performer
The hit holiday show that has been playing to sold out audiences since 2013. Los Angeles Times "Critic's Choice!" Off Broadway runaway hit at SoHo Playhouse in 2019.
www.latinachristmasspecial.com
PIP AND PEN SHOW -
Creator/Writer/Performer
It's the feel-good middle-aged lesbian almost British comedy you've been waiting for!
www.pipandpenshow.com
L.A.TINAS (pilot) - Writer
Four Latinas of different ethnicities try to develop their own reality series but their own chaotic made for "reality TV" personalities make the task virtually impossible. Based on a story by Elizabeth Morales, Bruna Rubio, Veronica Milagros Diaz, and Ivonne Armant.
LATINA SPECIAL (podcast) - Creator/Writer
Diana Yanez, creator of the hit show, "Latina Christmas Special" hosts this podcast that features original, true - but classically Latinoxagerrated - stories of life in the United States America as a Latina. With "Latina Special" you get the whole funny story, including the parts that make you think.
CARMEN (animation) - Creator/Writer
Carmen is a little bit loca. She doesn't fit in though she really wishes she could. This is her humor-filled journey into self-analysis at age 10.
video
about
Diana Yanez is the creator, co-writer and co-star of the Off-Broadway hit LATINA CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. This masterful retelling of family antics around the holidays has been chosen as Los Angeles Times "Critic's Choice" since its inception in 2015. Her first one-woman VIVA LA EVOLUCIÓN, about growing up Cuban and queer in Miami, won the New York International Fringe Festival “Overall Excellence Award for Solo Show” in 2010. With co-writer, Marjorie Duffield (Netflix OVER THE MOON) she wrote, performed and produced THE PIP AND PEN SHOW, a YouTube micro-series. It’s the feel-good middle-aged lesbian almost British comedy you’ve been waiting for! She has appeared on TV shows including CRIMINAL MINDS, THE SHIELD, BOSTON LEGAL, and many more. As a comic and comedy writer, Diana has created characters as well as performed and written for Margaret Cho's SENSUOUS WOMAN SHOW Off-Broadway. She toured with Cyndi Lauper on the TRUE COLORS TOUR as a comic, writer, and performer. She has created original characters that are in various viral videos including SPANISH FOR YOUR NANNY, LET ME BORROW THAT TOP (with Liam Sullivan) and MY PUSS (with Margaret Cho). Together these videos represent over 30 million views. A writer and out stand-up comic, Diana has performed at The Groundlings, The Improv, The Comedy Store and many others. Her improv groups include THE GAY MAFIA, COMEDY SMASH, and QUEER ON YOUR FEET. Diana hails from Miami, Florida (the "Other Cuba") and is first generation Cuban-American. She studied Fine Art in Berlin, Germany and is fluent in three languages. A passionate storyteller and performer, Diana intends that her pieces shed light on the universal truths of being human, regardless of one's color, gender, heritage or sexual orientation.
SAG-AFTRA
Dramatist Guild