Ching taught play writing at Pace University in New York City and is a member of the Kilroys and New Dramatists.
[1] Carla Ching grew up in Encino, Los Angeles, California with her parents and sister.
[3] She soon discovered that being in the theatre community made her part of a team that included people from all different friend groups, backgrounds, and ethnicities coming together with one common goal: to understand one another.
[3] Ching began to search for a community in New York where she came across Peeling, a pan-Asian performance collective at the Asian American Writer's Workshop.
[1] Ching was initially attracted to Peeling because she thought she would find a deeper sense of community amongst people with similar backgrounds/ethnicity as herself and felt she could workshop her poetry there.
[3] The pieces she workshopped to at Peeling became increasingly more performative and steadily began to include more people until she realized she was creating theatre.
[3] Ching claims she "grew tired of her own voice" which motivated her to begin writing characters with their own narrative and began attempting full length plays.
[3] However, Ching realized she had not learned about theatre writing before and was lacking the tools to create what she wanted so she went back to school.
[5] Over the course of their parents relationship (dating, marriage, and eventually divorce) Max and Diana become unpredictably close and they see each other through the ups and downs of their own adult lives.
[5] The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up has been produced by Huntington Theatre Company's Breaking Ground Festival, Artists at Play and Mu Performing Arts and runs approximately 75 minutes in length.
[1] It is an EST/Sloan Commission and has been produced by South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Porkfilled Productions, and Lyric Stage in Boston.
It has been produced by 2g and The Women's Project and is published in Out of Time and Place edited by Alexis Clements and Christine Evans.
[1] TBA is drama about Silas Parks who, prompted by a breakup, becomes a recluse, writing autobiographical stories from his Brooklyn apartment.
There have been staged readings of Dirty by IRT, and Cannery Works with Stamford Center for the Arts and it was a finalist for Cherrylane Mentorship Project and Ignition Festival at Victory Gardens.
[3] They were dating in New York City before he moved to Los Angeles for the pilot season of a television series.