KAELA MEI-SHING GARVIN

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. In 2017, she created and hosted A Girl's Guide to Surviving Fascism on Lady Parts. 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. She is a writer for upcoming series BKPI with Super Deluxe created by Hye Yun Park. Kaela is currently pursuing an MFA in playwriting at Indiana University.

news-- current/upcoming.

Winter 2018: Kaela appears in Indiana University's main stage production of Julius Caesar, running in late January in Bloomington. She's working on a one-act play, The Ladies' Room, to be produced at IU's Studio Theater on February 21, and will have a reading of a full-length play as part of IU's At First Sight Festival in April 2017.

news-- recent.

Fall 2017: Kaela starts her MFA in Playwriting at Indiana University. She curates and performs in Consciousness/Power, an independent project showcasing diverse work on campus with two full-capacity performances.
Spring 2017: Kaela hosts "A Girl's Guide to Surviving Fascism" on Lady Parts. Check out Episode 1 on Science with Molly Liu, Episode 2 on Ableism with Jessy Yates, and Episode 3 on Black Lives Matter and Self-Care with Julia Torres. She also performs her solo show featuring Sorority Girl Kate at Chinatown Soup, Muchmore's, and Bizarre Bushwick.
February 2017: Another round of workshops for Ambition: the female American serial killer musical!
Winter 2016: Kaela makes her LaMama debut in Clover, a world premiere written by Erik Ehn and directed by Glory Kadigan.
Fall 2016: tKaela pens Love at Sea, a new romance novel, for new A&E Network app Read My Lips
Summer 2016: Ambition: the female American Serial killer musical performed at Ant Fest and The Planet Connections Theater Festivity! Check out Kaela's interview on Ink and Worm at Radio Free Brooklyn, the show's listing in the New Yorker. The production was nominated for nine awards and won three, including Outstanding Music and Lyrics and Outstanding Production of a Musical.
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.