title: Juana Guarderas
text: # Juana Guarderas
  
  Juana Guarderas Albuja (born 24 June 1964) is an Ecuadorian theatre, cinema, and television actress. She has been the director of the Quito Comedy Club since 1990.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Juana Guarderas was born in Quito on 24 June 1964, the daughter of Raúl Guarderas Guarderas and María del Carmen Albuja, and lived in Machachi, Ecuador for 11 years. She began acting at age 17 in the Comedy Club of Quito production of La lección de la Luna. Guarderas would study theatre in the United States of America. She would appear in plays such as Las Marujitas, Monólogos de la Vagina, Diario íntimo de una adolescente, and the films Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda (adaption from the novel), Un titán en el ring, Sé que vienen a matarme y María, and llena eres de gracia. Guarderas also played in the TV sitcom Dejémonos de vainas, and now appears as part of a YouTube comedy project, Enchufe TV.
  
  Guarderas is the mother of two children. She is also the vice president of the Association of Theater Workers, and a member of the Assembly of Artists of Ecuador.
  
  She has been awarded the José Martínez Queirolo Award from the House of Ecuadorian Culture and Revista Hogar's Rosa de Plata award.
  
  ## Citations
  
  * 1 2 3 "Juana Guarderas". elapuntador.net (in Spanish). Revista El Apuntador. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  * 1 2 "Juana Guarderas: 'el teatro es mi verdadera pasión'". El Telégrafo (in Spanish). 29 July 2012. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  * ↑ "Juana Guarderas". Pichincha Universal (in Spanish). 3 March 2015. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  * ↑ "Juana Guarderas, una apasionada del teatro". Diario Extra (in Spanish). 1 February 2013. Archived from the original on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  * ↑ "Juana Guarderas: actriz, gestora y madre". Revista Familia (in Spanish). Grupo El Comcercio. 28 June 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  * 1 2 "Mujeres del año". Revista Hogar (in Spanish). 18 December 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  * ↑ "La condecoración José Martínez Queirolo recae sobre dos quiteños". El Comercio (in Spanish). 15 August 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  