Ching Valdes-Aran

CHING VALDES-ARAN is an award-winning theater artist who resides in NYC.  

Selected Roles: Aying (OBIE Award, Flipzoids, Ma-Yi Theatre),  Imelda Marcos (Lucille Lortel  nomination, Dogeaters, Public Theatre), Lady Macbeth, Lady Capulet, Duke Senior  (NYSF “Shakespeare on Broadway”, Belasco Theatre), Medea (Medea, Pan Asian Repertory), Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba, Naatco), Clytemnestra (Iphigenia in Aulis, Yale Rep), Athena (Iphigenia in Taurus (La Mama E.T.C. & Greek Int’l Festival), Empress Tzushi (Empress of China,  Cincinnati Playhouse),  Philoktetes (John Jesurun’s, Berliner Fiespiele)

Other Awards:  2021 Ruthie Award, Fox Foundation Fellow,  Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, New Dramatist’s Charles Bowden Award,  Ma-Yi Award for Artistic Excellence,  MAP grantee (Foundry), U.S. Congressional Award for Arts & Culture, others.

Selected Films & TV:  Missing Link (Golden Globe, 6 Oscar nomination), Mula Kung Ano And Noon, What it was Before  ( Palm de Oro, Locarno Film Festival ), Across the Universe., Sex & The City 1, Blacklist,  Others.

Most recently, she was in an all Asian cast of Sam Shepard’s True West directed by MeAnnTeo w/ Actor Center members, Sanjit de Silva & Ron Domingo and west coast actor Greg Watanabe at People’s Light Theater. 

She continues her intermittent national and international tour of Geoff Sobelle’s HOME that premiered at BAM in 2017-2024.