Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin is a writer, performer, educator, and new work advocate.
Plays include Call Out Culture (2022 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, 2021 NADIA Amplified Currents Festival, 2019 Ars Nova’s ANTFest), Harpers Ferry 2019 (2022 Know Theatre of Cincinnati production, 2021 Kendeda Playwriting Award finalist), Tiger Beat (2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2021 Seven Devils Conference finalist), and The Well-Tempered Clavier (2020 BAPF finalist, 2019 Paul Stephen Lim Award.) Kaela has received six Kennedy Center awards and has developed work with the Alliance Theater, The Road’s Under Construction Lab, the Coop’s Clusterf*ck, Playground-NY, and Pipeline Theater Company’s Playlab. Commissions include work with Breaking the Binary Theater Festival, Montana Repertory Theater, and College of the Holy Cross. Garvin is the BAPF Season 45 Play Selection Advisor, the Tank’s 2022 Pridefest curator, and a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based incubator of new interdisciplinary art. Kaela currently teaches playwriting at Cornish College of the Arts and is the Literary Manager for Luna Stage in New Jersey. www.kaelameishinggarvin.com
current/upcoming
10/22: you know that feeling produced as part of Breaking the Binary Theater Festival Off Broadway!
11/22: Pride and Prejudice produced at Loyola University in Chicago
11/22: Corners Grove produced at Cornish College of the Arts
11/22: Pride and Prejudice produced at Loyola University in Chicago
11/22: Corners Grove produced at Cornish College of the Arts
RECENT
09/22: Cap's Last Tape production as part of Montana Repertory Theater's fall Buckle Up 2 site-specific work
07/22: Kaela is a staff member at Sewanee Writers Conference!
Summer 2022: Call Out Culture named an O'Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist.
06/22: do this in [x] of me reading with Pipeline Theater Company
03/22: Harpers Ferry 2019 production at the Know Theatre of Cincinnati
11/21: Tiger Beat workshop at Cornish College of the Arts
07/21: Tiger Beat workshop at Bay Area Playwrights Festival
05/21: reading of Harpers Ferry 2019 at the Alliance Theatre
05/21: reading of Call Out Culture: or, the unbearable whiteness of being at NADIA
02/21: (le) Deluge, a new musical at College of the Holy Cross, premieres
08/20: Kaela starts teaching as a playwriting instructor at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle
05/20: Graduation from Indiana University with MFA in playwriting
02/20: Production of thesis play Tiger Beat at Indiana University
09/19: Reading of Sense and the City at the Access Theater
07/19: Kaela heads to Sewanee, TN for the Sewanee Writers' Conference
06/19: Call Out Culture: or, the unbearable whiteness of being plays Ars Nova's ANTFest
05/19: The Bakunawa receives a 29-hour workshop at Montana Repertory Theater
04/19: The Well-Tempered Clavier wins the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center
02/19: Haus of Mirth receives an academic production at Indiana University
07/22: Kaela is a staff member at Sewanee Writers Conference!
Summer 2022: Call Out Culture named an O'Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist.
06/22: do this in [x] of me reading with Pipeline Theater Company
03/22: Harpers Ferry 2019 production at the Know Theatre of Cincinnati
11/21: Tiger Beat workshop at Cornish College of the Arts
07/21: Tiger Beat workshop at Bay Area Playwrights Festival
05/21: reading of Harpers Ferry 2019 at the Alliance Theatre
05/21: reading of Call Out Culture: or, the unbearable whiteness of being at NADIA
02/21: (le) Deluge, a new musical at College of the Holy Cross, premieres
08/20: Kaela starts teaching as a playwriting instructor at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle
05/20: Graduation from Indiana University with MFA in playwriting
02/20: Production of thesis play Tiger Beat at Indiana University
09/19: Reading of Sense and the City at the Access Theater
07/19: Kaela heads to Sewanee, TN for the Sewanee Writers' Conference
06/19: Call Out Culture: or, the unbearable whiteness of being plays Ars Nova's ANTFest
05/19: The Bakunawa receives a 29-hour workshop at Montana Repertory Theater
04/19: The Well-Tempered Clavier wins the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center
02/19: Haus of Mirth receives an academic production at Indiana University
