Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin is a writer, performer, educator, and new work advocate.
Kaela's plays include Tiger Beat (2024 2ST Reading, 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2021 Seven Devils Conference finalist), High School Coven (2023 Strand Theatre Baltimore Production, 2017 Corkscrew Festival), Call Out Culture (2022 O'Neill NPC Finalist, 2021 NADIA Festival, 2019 Ars Nova’s ANTFest), Harpers Ferry 2019 (2022 Know Theatre of Cincinnati production, 2021 Kendeda 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 Breaking the Binary, the Alliance Theater, Gingold Theatrical Group, Exquisite Corpse Company, The Road, the Coop’s Clusterf*ck, Playground-NY, and Pipeline Theater Company’s Playlab. Commissions include work with Yangtze Rep (Project YZ), EST/Sloan, Montana Repertory Theater, Luna Stage, and College of the Holy Cross. Garvin is the Tank’s 2022 & 2023 Pridefest curator and a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based incubator of new interdisciplinary art. They worked on staff at the Sewanee Writers Conference and as the BAPF Season 45 Play Selection Advisor at the Playwrights Foundation. Kaela has taught playwriting at Cornish College of the Arts, Freehold Theatre, and Indiana University. They currently work as the Programming Associate for the Tank NYC and the Literary Manager for Luna Stage in New Jersey.
current/upcoming
03/11/24: Tiger Beat reading with 2ST!
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RECENT
12/23: New York reading of Ping Pong Play via Gingold Theatrical Group's Speakers' Corner, directed by Benita de Wit
07/23: New York reading of 马马虎虎 [mamahuhu] via Exquisite Corpse Company directed by Ran Xia
06/23: New York performance of 等一下 / děng yīxià / wait a little at the Brick
02/23: High School Coven produced at the Strand Theatre in Baltimore
2023: you know that feeling published through Breaking the Binary! Check it out here.
11/22: Pride and Prejudice produced at Loyola University in Chicago
11/22: Corners Grove produced at Cornish College of the Arts
10/22: you know that feeling produced as part of Breaking the Binary Theater Festival Off Broadway!
09/22: Cap's Last Tape production as part of Montana Repertory Theater's fall Buckle Up 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
07/23: New York reading of 马马虎虎 [mamahuhu] via Exquisite Corpse Company directed by Ran Xia
06/23: New York performance of 等一下 / děng yīxià / wait a little at the Brick
02/23: High School Coven produced at the Strand Theatre in Baltimore
2023: you know that feeling published through Breaking the Binary! Check it out here.
11/22: Pride and Prejudice produced at Loyola University in Chicago
11/22: Corners Grove produced at Cornish College of the Arts
10/22: you know that feeling produced as part of Breaking the Binary Theater Festival Off Broadway!
09/22: Cap's Last Tape production as part of Montana Repertory Theater's fall Buckle Up 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
