Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin is a writer, producer, performer, and educator.
Originally from Mountain View, CA, with stints in Indiana and New York, Kaela is a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based incubator of new interdisciplinary art. Kaela is a 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival selection, a 2021 Seven Devils Conference and Kendeda Playwriting Award finalist, and the recipient of six Kennedy Center awards, including the Mark Twain Comic Playwriting Award and Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Awards. Their plays have been developed with The Alliance Theater, Montana Repertory Theater, and College of the Holy Cross, and have been produced in New York at venues including Dixon Place, the New Ohio, and Ars Nova. Their work examines the spaces where privilege and oppression overlap through humor, history, and pop culture. Garvin currently teaches playwriting at Cornish College of the Arts. MFA, IU; BFA, NYU.
current/upcoming
July 2021: Tiger Beat is a selection for the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival! Tickets for Tiger Beat available here
RECENT
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
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
