about me

Carla Ching is an Asian American theatermaker and television writer/producer who creates work celebrating the indomitability of the human spirit. She is a native and current Angeleno who called NYC home for 16 years. In her former lives, she was a poet, high school English teacher, teaching artist and writer/performer with Peeling, the autobiographical AAPI Theater Company.

Her plays include Rage Play (NNPN Festival of New Plays 2025), Revenge Porn or The Story of a Body (Toulmin Commission from the Atlantic Theater Company, O’Neill, Ammunition Theater Company), Nomad Motel (NNPN Rolling World Premiere at City Theatre, Horizon Theatre and Unicorn Theatre; NY Premiere at The Atlantic), The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up (Artists at Play, Theatre Mu), Fast Company (South Coast Rep, EST) and TBA (2g).

Play Development: Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, O’Neill Playwrights Conference (2015 and 2021), Huntington Theater Company’s Breaking Ground Festival, The Ma-Yi Writers Lab, The Lark Play Development Center’s Writers Workshop, The Women’s Project Writers Group, CTG Writers’ Workshop, Ammo Writers Lab, Chalk Rep Writers’ Group, among others.

Former Artistic Director of Asian American Theater Company, 2g. Member of Ammunition Theatre Company. Founding member of The Kilroys. Alum of New Dramatists. She’s co-recipient with Aleshea Harris, Donja R. Love, Kia Corthron and Mfoniso Udofia of the 2021 Horton Foot Playwriting Award from the Dramatist Guild. Recipient of The LA New Play Prize.

TBA is published in Out of Time and Place. Fast Company is published by Samuel French. Nomad Motel and The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up are published by TRW Plays.

BA, Vassar College. MFA, New School for Drama. MA, English Education from Teachers College at Columbia University.

TV Credits: Graceland, Fear the Walking Dead, I Love Dick, The First , Preacher, Home Before Dark, Mr. + Mrs. Smith. She’s developed work for AMC, Hulu, Onyx, Netflix, Amazon and FX.

She’s taught workshops for The New Victory Theater, Lincoln Center Institute, The Public Theater, The Women’s Project, TDF, American Place Theater, Young Playwrights, The Wallis Annenberg Center and Center Theater Group. She also taught Playwriting at Pace University in NY.