Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
She/her/hers and they/them/theirs
Sunnyvale, CA
Queer mixed Asian American playwright, producer, and performer
Biography

Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin is a queer mixed Asian American writer, producer, and performer. She is a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based incubator of new and developing interdisciplinary art. She’s a producer and host of Hearabouts, Asian American Midwest Radio recorded in Bloomington, Indiana. Her essays have appeared on The Clyde Fitch Report, Reappropriate, Lady Parts, and other sites; she’s written romance novels for A&E Media and webisodes for Super Deluxe.  Her plays have been performed in New York at Ars Nova, Dixon Place, and the New Ohio, among others. Her play The Well-Tempered Clavier won the 2019 Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, and her play Butter Knife received three awards from the Kennedy Center in 2018. Kaela is a current MFA playwriting candidate at Indiana University and holds a BFA from NYU. www.kaelameishinggarvin.com |  @kaemeishing on IG, Twitter

Plays

Butter Knife is a magical, travel-filled breakup play about love and loss through the lens of a queer interracial couple. When Lester's aunt passes away in the Philippines, his relationship with his boyfriend Andrew deteriorates over time and several continents.

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Successes

06/19:  Call Out Culture 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

02/19: Haus of Mirth receives an academic production at Indiana University