Kalina Ko (Director, Beautiful Blessed Child) (she/her) is a Cantonese-American theater director, dramaturg, and literary administrator. She is currently a Co-Coordinator for the Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab, Literary Manager at Atlantic Theater Company, and a Curator for Hedgepig’s Expand the Canon. Past experience includes directing Celine Song’s Endlings (Hedgerow Theatre), Caroline Festa’s Funny (Headwall Theater Company), Lizzie Hagstedt’s Sophie Blanchard’s Rock N’ Roll Extravaganza (Moxie Arts), Nina Ki’s Rescues (Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writers Group). She has served as associate director for Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife Gloria (NAMT, dir. Jess McLeod), assistant director for T. Adamson’s The Straights (The JACK, Brooklyn, dir. Will Detlefsen), and script assistant for Hansol Jung on Wolf Play (Soho Rep). She was also a NAMT Directing observer in 2021 and was part of the 2023-2024 Moxie Arts Incubator Cohort. www.KalinaKo.weebly.com
