about me
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An LA transplant, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and wrote and performed with them for three years, which she still considers her first theater training.
Her plays include TBA, Big Blind/Little Blind, The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness and Fast Company. Her pieces have been produced or workshopped by Ma-Yi Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, The Women’s Project, Partial Comfort, 2g, Desipina & Company, The Hegira, Red Fern Theater Company and Vampire Cowboys among others.
She’s an alumna of The Women’s Project Lab 2008-2010 and a current member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. 2008 Urban Artists Initiative fellow, a 2009-2010 Teachers and Writers Collaborative fellow and a 2010-11 Lark Play Development Center Playwrights Workshop fellow. EST/Sloan Commission. TBA is published in Out of Time and Place. BA, Vassar College. MFA, New School for Drama. Artistic Director of 2g.
As an actor, she has appeared in the short films “Digital Antiquities” by J.P.Chan and “Terra Cotta” by Samantha Chance, directed by Yasmine Gomez.
As a teaching artist, she’s worked for The New Victory Theater, Lincoln Center Institute, The Public Theater, The Women’s Project, TDF, American Place Theater and Young Playwrights.
