Kalina Ko (she/her) is a Cantonese-American theater director, dramaturg, and literary administrator based in NYC. She is interested in the radical connection and community building of storytelling. Past experience includes directing Laura Neill's Pink Unicorn Frappuccinos (Chain Theatre), Nina Ki's Rescues (Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writers Group), Ma-Yi Short Stacks, Paige Conway’s Tag (drafted), and Sophie Poole’s Ethanol (NOMADS). She was associate director for Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria at NAMT and assisted Will Detlefsen on T. Adamson’s The Straights (The JACK, Brooklyn). She is currently a director in the Moxie Arts Incubator.
Past dramaturgy experience includes Dear John by Rachel Lin (Brick Aux, dir. Nana Dakin), Ola Na Iwi by Victoria Kneubuhl (Roundabout Theatre Company, dir. Cara Hinh), Chinatown, My Chinatown by Shirley Chen (Ma-Yi Theatre Company, dir. Sam Ozeas). She has also script assisted Hansol Jung on Wolf Play (Soho Rep) and Amy Jo Jackson on Hatchetation (National Music Theater Conference). Currently, Kalina is the Literary Associate at Roundabout Theatre company, an Associate Producer for Playground-NY, and a Co-coordinator for Ma-Yi Theater Company's Writers Lab. She has also worked in the Literary departments at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and Manhattan Theatre Club and been involved with Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre's Expand the Canon project. Click here for Kalina's resume. |