Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (Playwright, Short Plays) (they/she) is a writer, theatermaker, educator, and new work advocate. Their plays include Corners Grove (Dramatists Publishing Service), Ping Pong Play (2024 Leah Ryan Fund Prize Winner, 2025 O’Neill NPC Finalist & New Harmony Project Semifinalist, Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers Corner), Tiger Beat (2024 2ST Reading, 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival selection & Seven Devils finalist), High School Coven (2023 Strand Theatre Baltimore Production, 2017 Corkscrew Festival), Call Out Culture (2022 O’Neill NPC Finalist, 2019 Ars Nova’s ANTFest), and Harpers Ferry 2019 (2022 Know Theatre of Cincinnati production, 2021 Kendeda finalist.) Kaela has received six Kennedy Center awards and has developed work with Ma-Yi, Breaking the Binary, the Alliance Theater, Exquisite Corpse Company, The Road, the Coop’s Clusterf*ck, 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 a board member at Playwrights Foundation, the Tank’s 2022-2024 Pridefest curator, and a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based incubator of new interdisciplinary art. They’ve 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. 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
