Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
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Writer, Performer, Designer

Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin

 is a Brooklyn-based playwright, costume designer, and performer who hails from Mountain View, California.   She received her B.F.A. in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.  She is a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, an artistic residency which produces a night of new live work every other month in Brooklyn.  Kaela is a co-creator, producer, writer and performer in 2 Girls 1 Asian, a new original series about the experiences biracial women face in the entertainment industry. Her plays have been produced at Dixon Place, Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory, the Secret Theater, and the Access Theater, among others.

news-- current/upcoming.

Summer 2016:: Ambition: the female American Serial killer musical goes up at ​Ant Fest and The Planet Connections Theater Festivity!  Check out her interview on Ink and Worm at Radio Free Brooklyn, the show's listing in the New Yorker.  
Upcoming :: Kaela and the cast of Ambition will be interviewed (with live music!) on ​The Mary Sue this Friday, June 24 at 3:30pm EST. 

news-- recent.

Spring 2016  :: Another season, another 6x6 Writers' Group session.  Kaela and fellow writer A.P. Andrews created 6x6 as an independent writing program in February 2014. Kaela completed Chang/Eng, a play about the historical Siamese twins, the Civil War, and historical Asian America.
Winter 2016 :: Kaela's new musical Ambition premiered on Dixon Place's Main Stage.
          Kaela's new play Polenta: a space opera premiered in an excerpt at Undiscovered Countries.
Summer 2015 :: Kaela's play Corners Grove received a full length production in the Planet Connections Theater Festivity, was                         nominated for 6 awards and won one!
Spring 2015 :: Traveled to Nebraska in May 2015 for the Willa Cather International Festival with a new play by A.P. Andrews,                          "Lark/Song," a theatrical retelling of Cather's "The Song of the Lark" 
Winter 2015 :: Costumed Strange Harbor's Dmitri and the 3000 Kopeks.
                  :: Curated Alton Alburo's How to Troubleshoot a Weak Connection as part of Concrete Temple Theatre's Lab Festival.
                  :: Currently running a[nother!] writers' play group with AP Andrews
Fall 2014 :: Assistant director to Young Jean Lee on her new play Straight White Men, which will make its New York premiere                                at the Public Theater this November.
                :: Workshopped a new play with Alton Alburo as part of Concrete Temple Theatre's Lab Festival.
                :: Founded a writers' play group with AP Andrews

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