Yaraní Del Valle Piñero is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, dancer, educator, cultural promoter, and activist based in New York City. Her interdisciplinary approach to artistic creation has led her to train and to collaborate with theater directors, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and educators as a performer, co-creator and/or curriculum developer. Yaraní was co-founder of the Puerto Rican theater troupe Baobabs, one of the first interdisciplinary artist collectives of her generation, with which she performed, wrote and produced numerous original plays. She attributes her diverse formation to the education she received at the San Juan Children's Choir, the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico, the Drama Department of the University of Puerto Rico, internships with the Latin American theater companies Yuyachkani in Perú and Malayerba in Ecuador, and to mentors in the theater, music and arts education fields like: Rosa Luisa Márquez, Maritza Pérez, Dean Zayas, Viveca Vázquez, Teresa Hernández, Javier Cardona, Eduardo Alegría, Rosalba Rolón and Evi Lucío.

As an educator, Yaraní has designed, developed and implemented Theater, Creative Movement, Creative Writing and Theater of the Oppressed workshops for institutions and organizations such as Centro Médico Psychiatric Hospital (PR), Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR), Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Educ-Arte, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), PregonesPRTT, Loisaida Center, among others.

Del Valle was a faculty member of Prometeo Theater at Miami Dade College, the only Spanish-language theater conservatory in the U.S. functioning under a Higher Education academic institution. She was also a faculty member of Teatro en Movimiento por el Viejo San Juan, an itinerant theater school in Puerto Rico’s Old San Juan, founded by Maritza Pérez Otero. Del Valle worked for the Education and Community Arts Residency programs at Loisaida Center in Lower East Side Manhattan.

Yaraní has a vast trajectory as an actor, with works spanning from Film to TV, Web Series and Theater. Projects like: Puerto Rico’s local films El Clown, Maledeamores & La gran desilusión; CHAMACAS web series, which featured an international cast of Latine comedic actresses and theater collaborations with companies such as Caborca Theatre & PregonesPRTT.

Her latest venture is Caicu, an organization that serves as a cultural platform to empower Puerto Rican artists beyond geographical barriers. Caicu enables collaborations between artists in Puerto Rico and its diaspora around the globe.