Ariana ultimately found roots in New York City while continuing a career as a professional singer and actor, working as a freelance soloist for special events and churches, and traveling to perform in theatrical productions throughout the country and abroad! Ariana has toured throughout the United States, Canada and Singapore with National and International Touring companies, as well as performed at several venues in New York CIty and across the country including Paper Mill Playhouse, STAGES St. Louis, City Theatre, The York Theatre, Prospect Theatre Company, Latiné Musical Theatre Lab, Feinstein's/54 Below, Green Room 42, The Producer's Club, TheatreWorksUSA, The Gateway Playhouse, The Palace Theatre, Arizona Broadway Theatre, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Prather Entertainment, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Westchester Broadway Theatre, La Comedia Dinner Theatre, Theatre Three, White Plains Performing Arts Center, and the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport. Upon returning to NYC from performing all over North America with the NETworks National Tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music from 2017-2019, Ariana went on to make her Off Broadway debut as Divonne Bruder in the New York City premiere of The Green Room at the American Theatre of Actors. Soon after, Ariana was recognized as an honoree of "New York's Latinos 40 Under 40" in the inaugural New York City edition of the Chicago based publication Negocios Now magazine.

In the fall of 2023, Ariana was honored to be featured as a soloist to sing alongside Little Amal, a 12 foot puppet of a ten year old Syrian refugee child, on her journey for the Walk With Amal in Hartford, CT. Now, Ariana considers herself to be an active "professional auditioner" and especially seeks opportunities to be involved in new works, readings, and workshops, continuing her passion for collaborating, creating and developing new stories which highlight under repesented voices as much as possible. Ariana Valdes is represented by Gregg Baker Management and has been a proud union member of the Actors' Equity Association since 2022.

Ariana is an active director, guest teaching artist, private voice teacher, vocal coach, and vocal music director, having contributed to various special events, educational programs and productions at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, Bayway Arts Center, Studio Theatre of Lindenhurst, Conard High School, George F. Baker High School, Take A Bow Playhouse, Black Rock Theater, and recently served as a private vocal coach for the inaugural season of Hartford's Got Talent, which premiered at The Bushnell's Belding Theater. Ariana also serves as an adjudicator for Connecticut's Stephen Sondheim Awards.

With The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Ariana has served as a teaching artist for the Bushnell's Musical Explorers program, created in conjunction with the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, after leading several masterclasses with the Ensign-Darling Vocal Fellowship throughout the 2020-2021 season, Ariana was invited to make her directorial debut for EDVF's first ever virtual concert, conceptualizing a professionally filmed documentary style concert entitled Time, Dreams, and the Changes Between, available to stream on YouTube. Ariana is honored to now oversee the next generation of emerging young vocal artists of Connecticut as the recently appointed Artistic Director of the Ensign-Darling Vocal Fellowship NEW VOICES program at The Bushnell! For more information, please visit www.bushnell.org/ednv. 

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Ariana is available for workshops, masterclasses, private voice lessons, college/competition/audition prep, and vocal coachings in New York City and Connecticut, as well as virtually through her studio, The Mixed Voice Studio. To inquire, please reach out via the CONTACT tab above.

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