Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (they/she) 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 is a current member of Ma-Yi’s Writers Lab and has developed work with companies including Breaking the Binary, the Alliance Theater, Pipeline Theater Company and Gingold Theatrical Group. Commissions include work with Yangtze Rep (Project YZ), EST/Sloan, Montana Repertory Theater, and College of the Holy Cross. Kaela has received six Kennedy Center awards and is a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based queer incubator of new interdisciplinary art. Kaela has taught playwriting at Cornish College of the Arts, Freehold Theatre, and Indiana University, and they’ve worked in the literary departments of Luna Stage in New Jersey and the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco. They currently work as the Programming Associate for the Tank NYC. www.kaelameishinggarvin.com