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Carla Ching

CARLA CHING

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  

n LA native, 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 NOMAD MOTEL (2015 ONeill Playwrights Conference; SCR Crossroads Commission), FAST COMPANY (an EST/Sloan Commission; South Coast Rep, dir. Bart DeLorenzo; Ensemble Studio Theatre, dir. Robert Ross Parker; Pork Filled Productions, dir. Amy Poisson; winner of the Edgerton New American Play Award and The Seattle Times Footlights Award for Top Play on a Smaller Stage ), TBA (2g, dir. Denyse Owens), THE SUGAR HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS (Ma-Yi Theater Company, dir. Daniella Topol), BIG BLIND/LITTLE BLIND, and THE TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP. Her work has been produced or workshopped by South Coast Rep, Center Theater Group, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, The Womens Project, Partial Comfort, 2g, Desipina & Company, The Hegira, Red Fern Theater Company, Chalk Rep, Artists at Play and Vampire Cowboys among others. Shes an alumna of The Womens Project Lab 2008-2010, the 2011/12 Lark Play Development Center Meeting of the Minds, the 2013/14 CTG Writers Workshop and the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Former Artistic Director of Asian American Theater Company, 2g. 2008 Urban Artists Initiative fellow, 2009/2010 Teachers and Writers Collaborative fellow and 2010/11 Lark Playwrights Workshop fellow. TBA is published in OUT OF TIME AND PLACE. BA, Vassar College. MFA, New School for Drama. Proud member of New Dramatists and The Kilroys. Carla wrote on Season Two of USAs GRACELAND and is currently writing on Season Two of AMC's FEAR THE WALKING DEAD.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Big Blind/Little Blind         Caught         Closing Up Shop         Dirty         Dissipating Heat         Fast Company         First         Found Objects         Further Adventures of Little Goth Girl         Gentrifusion         Girl Bully         Next Best Thing         Nomad Hotel         Ripple Effect, The         Sugar House At the Edge Of the Wilderness, The         TBA         Two Kids That Blow Shit Up, The         Will Sing

Big Blind/Little Blind

Synopsis:
A new television reality programme in which contestants needing a liver transplant vie to win one. The audience decides the winner

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Caught

Synopsis:
Both Lenny and her father will not act their ages

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Short play

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Closing Up Shop

Synopsis:
a look at what happens when it's time to move on to the next generation.
- press release

Notes:
part of the seventh (and final) edition of Desipina & Co.'s Annual short play festival

1st Produced:
Center Stage, NY     2009

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Desipina & Co

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Dirty

Synopsis:
On a rooftop in Brooklyn Winston meets Cordelia. He has broken up with his partner but is still in love. Cordelia does not want any commitments. The only thing they can do therefore is get married

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Dissipating Heat

Synopsis:
a one-act about three store clerks in various states of crisis.

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Thumping Claw     2008

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Fast Company

Fast Company
Mable is a confidence trickster. She has taught her two sons so they can be part of it. The her daughter Blue sets up the deal of the decade - the thing is will she include her mother and brothers?

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South Coast Repertory Theatre     05 Jul 1905

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Genre:
dramatic comedy mystery thriller

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First

Synopsis:
Falling for the wrong person

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Found Objects

Synopsis:
Three Asian American friends at the casino run a card counting scam. They get discovered and one of them has her knees shattered

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Further Adventures of Little Goth Girl

Synopsis:
Little Red Riding Hood has become a Goth and lives in New York City

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Gentrifusion

Synopsis:
In Gentrifusion, playwrights Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers and Crystal Skillman explore the different truths surrounding the gentrification of New York's neighborhoods. the playwrights were charged with breaking down the cliched idea of "gentrification." their pieces dig deeper to address the ways that change both improves and diminishes a community. all residents are given voice in this series, ultimately discovering that both long time residents and the new crop of gentrifiers benefit and suffer in different measures and different ways.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers, Crystal Skillman

1st Produced:
Laba Theatre At The 14th Street Y     29 Jan 2011

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Red Fern Theatre Company

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Girl Bully

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Viv is the bully on the block in a part of Brooklyn. Albert becomes her toy boy. Viv is banished from Brooklyn. Many years later she comes back looking for Albert and a way back in

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Next Best Thing

Synopsis:
A boxing match between two men in a locked room

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Ten minute play

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Nomad Hotel

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ONeill Playwrights Conference; SCR Crossroads Commission     07 Jul 1905

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Ripple Effect, The

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On a freezing January night a promising basketball player throws himself in to the Hudson. Family, friends and reporters try to figure out why

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Sugar House At the Edge Of the Wilderness, The

Synopsis:
When their Father dies suddenly and their mother goes on a grief pilgrimage, Chinese adoptees Greta and Han are sent to live with their ex-rockstar uncle and his young girlfriend. Wrestling with the wilds of New York and their grief, Greta gets in trouble with the law and put in a court mandated reform program and Han runs away to play music on the street. On the edge of the wilderness, Greta and Han must ask themselves: If I can't go home, where do I go? A play with music and a live twitter feed about kids growing up fast, children raising children, and shifting notions of home.
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1st Produced:
Connelly theatre
220 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10009     06 Nov 2011

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Ma-Yi Theater

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TBA

Synopsis:
When Silas Park's girlfriend leaves him, he becomes a shut-in, pumping out blistering autobiographical writings in his little east Village apartment. Just as Silas finds himself unexpectedly on the verge of literary stardom as the next Asian American wunderkind, his brother Finn shows up on his doorstep, accusing Silas of stealing his life. TBa is a play in two acts, in the crevice between fact and fiction
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Ma-Yi     2006

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Second Generation

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in OUT OF TIME AND PLACE. BA, Vassar College. MFA, New School for Drama   -

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Two Kids That Blow Shit Up, The

Synopsis:
When they were ten one of Diana's parents had an affair with one of Max' parents. In the next 18 years it was on again and off again, there were divorces and marriages. Max and Diana were best friends they fell in love and ended up hating each other

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Will Sing

Synopsis:
an experiment in inappropriate singing.
- nytheatre.com

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part of Ice Cubes A one time only Ice Factory studio series. By the Ma-Yi theater Company Writers Lab (Samantha Chanse, Carla Ching, Mia Chung, Michael Lew And Qui Nguyen)

1st Produced:
3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10014     28 Jul 2011

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Ma-Yi Theater Company

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