Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin

Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (they/she) is a writer, theater artist, educator, and new work advocate. Kaela's plays include Ping Pong Play (2024 Leah Ryan Fund Prize Winner, 2025 O'Neill NPC Finalist, Gingold Theatrical Group's Speakers Corner), 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), Corners Grove (DPS publication) 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 Ma-Yi, 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 2022-2024 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; as the BAPF Season 45 Play Selection Advisor at the Playwrights Foundation; as Literary Manager at Luna Stage in New Jersey; and as Programming Associate for the Tank NYC. Kaela has taught playwriting and more at Cornish College of the Arts, Freehold Theatre, and Indiana University. They are currently the Assistant Professor of Playwriting at Salem State University. www.kaelameishinggarvin.com