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Carla Ching

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angeleno, fmr nyer, playwright, aapi, founding kilroy, tv writer (Home Before Dark, Preacher, The First, I Love Dick, FearTWD & Mr. + Mrs. Smith).

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The board of the Leah Ryan Fund is thrilled to announce Carla Ching (@carlaching) as the next recipient of The Boost commission!

Carla Ching receives the commission for her play: KYE CLUB (working title.)

At the Number One Seafood restaurant in Monterey Park, a group of friends gather monthly to engage in a radical project: to lend each other money to start new businesses, inspired by the Korean American “kye” system. A craft beer microbrewery. A plant shop. A fermentation lab. A cafe/record store like the Japanese kissaten. A restaurant. Without venture capital pals or rich parents to fund their projects, they can only make their dreams a reality with a little help from their friends. What happens when you mix friends and money, business and marriage, and when you start a business and have no idea what you are doing? This play will encourage us to look towards community, family, and friends to build what you want.

This new work is slated to have a public reading in the fall of 2027, and will be written in conversation with Leah Ryan’s play DEBT.

#theboost #newplays #leahryan #newcommission by @carlaching

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All the pictures I have of you we are eating or looking at art or celebrating friends’ milestones. I guess that’s not a bad way to spend a year (when not working). Happy birthday, @christopher.john.larkin May this be one for the books. In a good way. by @carlaching

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🧨 We’re thrilled to announce our first full production since the start of COVID: The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up by Carla Ching, opening THIS WEEKEND!

At its heart, this is a funny, messy, heartfelt story about two people trying to figure out life, love, and themselves. It just so happens that this couple is Asian.
For us, that’s part of what makes this production so special. AANHPI stories deserve to be everything—romantic, ridiculous, complicated, joyful, flawed, and deeply human. After years of readings, workshops, community events, and dreaming about what comes next, bringing a full production back to the stage feels both exciting and a little surreal. We can’t wait to share it with you!

Join us as we celebrate this next chapter for Theatre Diaspora… and one explosive love story. Tickets are in our bio or website! If there is any financial barrier, DM us as we are always looking for volunteer ushers!

💥 The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up 💥
Written by Carla Ching
June 26-July 5 at Artists Repertory Theatre
Featuring Barbie Wu and Mac Schonher

[Video created by Mac Schonher]
Thank you to our partner organization Artists Repertory Theatre for the space!

#TheatreDiaspora #AANHPITheatre #PortlandTheatre #AsianAmericanTheatre #TheTwoKidsThatBlowShitUp taken in Artists Repertory Theatre by @carlaching

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Old school 🎄☃️❤️ by @carlaching

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Tonight’s the night! “I Am an American” premieres at @calartsredcat. Sharing the stage with @mayleetodd and @jacobxolff — come through. 🦅

Ticket link: https://www.redcat.org/events/2025/now/week1

Photo taken by @angeloriggi taken in REDCAT - Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater by @carlaching

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It’s this man’s birthday. In this mad, mad world, I appreciate that he brings his authentic self and tries to make any community he’s a part of, whether a community of 2, 4, 37, 45 or 101 or hundreds, a better, warmer place where you feel seen. Happy birthday. I hope the world gives back everything you give it. by @carlaching

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We’re so excited to announce that we will be a part of REDCAT’s Fall 2025 Season! Get your tickets at REDCAT.org! @calartsredcat

Since January, Diana Wyenn, Carla Ching and Joy Gregory have been leading and facilitating devising sessions and story circles with the ensemble for our next project, I Am An American (via Los Angeles). A work-in-progress excerpt will be presented as part of REDCAT’s NOW Festival 2025 this November 6-8.
@dianawyenn @joyousmcjoy @carlaching @ammotheatre

“I Am an American (via Los Angeles)“ - What is it to be living in the United States of America today? What are the challenges of participating in a democracy that was built without many of us in mind? Performed by an ensemble whose identities and perspectives reflect the diversity of Los Angeles, this production illuminates the lives of a cross section of Angelenos today. Weaving together autobiographical accounts, song, and spectacle, I Am an American (via Los Angeles) is an intimate, honest, and searing look at being in relationship with ideas of America, conceived and directed by Diana Wyenn, and devised with LA-based Ammunition Theatre Company.

#calartsredcat #redcatfall25 #ammo #ammunitiontheatrecompany taken in REDCAT - Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater by @carlaching

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A huge thank you to @nationalnewplaynetwork and the super human @emmaylai, @nannnpn and @annegmorgan and the NNPN crew and board for a wonderful new play festival and reminding us of the power of theater and community. Even as arts funding is under attack, they are still making theater pipelines and partnerships happen. Check out new plays by @pat.the.carroll @phaedrasays @andrewrosendorf @aplaywrightsremorse and Stephen Brown. And thanks to @lilytungcrystal who directed beautiful perfomances from this lovely cast. KT Shorb also informed me my friend Nandita Shenoy already wrote a play called Rage Play so I’m gonna have to come up with new name for this play. Oops. So tired but happy after this shit show of a year to be with folks still trying to change hearts and minds and lift each other up. taken in Minneapolis, Minnesota by @carlaching

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About last week… by @carlaching

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A very very quick trip with a very bad electric car but did get to see a handful of old friends and family. And forgot to take pictures. But there was freezing cold, Korean spa cuisine, the Highline, a random lunch waiting two hours for the bad car, stellar Szechwan food on Christmas Eve at @breezehexu, afternoon tea at @crosbykitchen, Korean vegan lunch at @hangawi, crazy spicy dry pot at @malaproject and then waiting at @pdtnyc and then giving up after a bad corn dog. A magic show. And a crazy drive to upstate NY for Christmas Day where the tire kept deflating and we were almost out of charge but we somehow got there only an hour and a half late. It was…a white Christmas. If we missed you this time, apologies and we will find you next time. NY, you are a charming ex boyfriend. by @carlaching

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This one on his birthday. Happy birthday, @christopher.john.larkin. You’re a real one and so happy to know you. taken in Musso & Frank Grill by @carlaching

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