Kyla Tucaya Garcia is an American stage, film, and television actress and audiobook narrator. As an audiobook narrator, she has received 14 Earphone Awards and has been a finalist for four Audie Awards.
Biography
Garcia was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey [1] and attended High Tech High School. [2] She began acting at age 8 and at age 15, played Dorothy in an Off-Broadway production of Oz: A Twisted Musical. [1] Shortly after, she began attending Mason Gross School of the Arts. [1] She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University.
As of 2022 [update], Garcia lives in Los Angeles. [3]
Awards and honors
Awards
| Year | Title | Award/Honor | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero | Earphone Award | Winner | [4] |
| The Mare by Mary Gaitskill | Earphone Award | Winner | [5] | |
| 2016 | Christodora by Tim Murphy | Earphone Award | Winner | [6] |
| Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | Top 10 | [7] [8] | |
| A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, edited by Lucia Berlin and Stephen Emerson | Earphone Award | Winner | [9] | |
| 2018 | Hope Nation (2018), edited by Rose Brock | Earphone Award | Winner | [10] |
| Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano | Earphone Award | Winner | [11] | |
| Puddin' by Julie Murphy | Earphone Award | Winner | [12] | |
| Refugee by Alan Gratz | Audie Award for Middle Grade Title | Finalist | [13] | |
| 2019 | Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine | Earphone Award | Winner | [14] |
| Suggested Reading by Dave Connis | Earphone Award | Winner | [15] | |
| There There by Tommy Orange | Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance | Finalist | [16] | |
| We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia | Earphone Award | Winner | [17] | |
| 2021 | How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland | Earphone Award | Winner | [18] |
| Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers by David Grann | Earphone Award | Winner | [19] | |
| Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski | Earphone Award | Winner | [20] | |
| 2022 | How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | Top 10 | [21] [22] |
| Class Act by Jerry Craft | Audie Award for Middle Grade Title | Finalist | [23] | |
| Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance | Finalist | [23] | ||
| You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories by Maggie Shipstead | Earphone Award | Winner | [24] |
"Best of" lists
| Year | Title | List | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | [25] |
| Refugee by Alan Gratz | Booklist's Audio Stars for Youth | [26] | |
| Booklist's Best Youth Historical Fiction on Audio | [27] | ||
| Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Youth | [28] | ||
| Publishers Weekly Best Children's/YA Audiobook | [29] | ||
| 2018 | Hope Nation (2018), edited by Rose Brock | AudioFile Best of Young Adult | [30] |
| 2020 | We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | [31] |
| 2022 | Class Act by Jerry Craft | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | [21] |
Filmography
| Media | Year | Title | Role(s) | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Film | 1998 | The Object of My Affection | Chorus Singer | Uncredited |
| 1999 | Just Looking | Student | Uncredited | |
| 2013 | Shotgun Wedding | Reporter Pamela White | ||
| 2018 | To Each, Her Own (English) | Additional voices | ||
| Yucatán (English edition) | Veronica | |||
| Short | 2010 | The Bare Nekked Chef | Kyla Fiber | |
| 2011 | Heavy | Mara | ||
| 2012 | Here Today | Woman | ||
| Limits | Nurse | |||
| Make Believe | Lily | |||
| Sweet Tooth | Lunch Lady | |||
| 2013 | Sink | Woman | ||
| 2014 | Chatty Cathy Goes to Yoga | Yogi | ||
| 2015 | Time Capsule | Claire Rodriguez | ||
| 2018 | Bday Bail | Annette | ||
| 2020 | Crystal | Crystal | ||
| The Exchange | Kwanita | |||
| An Unkindness of Ravens | Dr. Emily Parker | |||
| 2021 | Waking Up 80 | Nurse | ||
| Herstory 101: John Smith was a F*ckboy | Dagmar Rodriguez | |||
| TV series | 2012 | Inside Room 334 | Patricia | 1 episode |
| 2014 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Mrs. Zeller | " Beginning of the End" | |
| 2018 | The Incredible Life of Darrell | Reporter | 1 episode | |
| 2019 | Blackwater | Birdie Blackwater | ||
| 2017-2020 | Cable Girls (English) | Lidia Aguilar | 42 episodes | |
| 2021 | New Amsterdam | Teri | 1 episode | |
| 2022 | The Wright Turn | Detective Warren | 2 episodes | |
| Olga Dies Dreaming | Mom in love with Prieto | 1 episode | ||
| Video game | 2018 | Dynasty Warriors 9 (English) |
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References
- ^ a b c d "Kyla Garcia". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ Hack, Charles. "Hoboken native wins Black Hollywood Film Festival talent slam", The Jersey Journal, October 20, 2013. Accessed October 8, 2022. "Born and raised in Hoboken, Garcia moved to Hollywood to pursue an acting career in 2011. She was chosen from hundreds of entrants who submitted monologue entries on YouTube.com for this year's Slam.... She continued to perform in multiple productions at High Tech High School in North Bergen under the direction of Alex Perez."
- ^ "Kyla García". Tantor Media. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "GABI A GIRL IN PIECES by Isabel Quintero Read by Kyla Garcia | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "THE MARE by Mary Gaitskill Read by Kyla Garcia Christa Lewis Sean Pratt Nicol Zanzarella | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "CHRISTODORA by Tim Murphy Read by Cassandra Campbell Christa Lewis Suzanne Elise Freeman Prentice Onayemi Thom Rivera Kyla Garcia Will Damron | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "2016 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ Anna, Lam (2016-01-14). "YALSA names 2016 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults". American Library Association. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN by Lucia Berlin Stephen Emerson Ed Lydia Davis Foreword Read by Thom Rivera Dawn Harvey Carol Monda Hillary Huber Bernadette Dunne Kyla Garcia | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "HOPE NATION by Rose Brock Ed Read by Michael Crouch Kate Rudd Bahni Turpin Tavia Gilbert Nancy Wu MacLeod Andrews Adenrele Ojo Erin Spencer Kyla Garcia Mozhan Marno Prentice Onayemi Rebecca Soler January LaVoy Guy Lockard Chris Andrew Ciulla | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "LOVE SUGAR MAGIC A DASH OF TROUBLE by Anna Meriano Read by Kyla Garcia | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "PUDDIN by Julie Murphy Read by Erin Mallon Kyla Garcia | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "2018 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". www.audiopub.org. Archived from the original on 2020-12-30. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "SABRINA CORINA by Kali Fajardo-Anstine Read by Almarie Guerra Roxana Ortega Alma Cuervo Ana Isabel Kyla Garcia Marisol Ramirez | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "SUGGESTED READING by Dave Connis Read by Kyla Garcia | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "2019 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". www.audiopub.org. Archived from the original on 2021-08-31. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "WE SET THE DARK ON FIRE by Tehlor Kay Mejia Read by Kyla Garcia | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "HOW MOON FUENTEZ FELL IN LOVE WITH THE UNIVERSE by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland Read by Kyla Garcia | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON ADAPTED FOR YOUNG READERS by David Grann Read by Kyla Garcia Jon Lindstrom Joe Ochman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "TOGETHER WE WILL GO by J Michael Straczynski Read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt Dan Bittner Neo Cihi Michael Crouch Samantha Desz Kyla Garcia Jonathan Todd Ross Fred Sanders Tara Sands Shaun Taylor-Corbett Kevin R Free Aden Hakimi | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ a b "2022 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2022-02-03. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ Serbekian, Michael (2022-02-03). "YALSA names 2022 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults". American Library Association. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ a b "2022 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". www.audiopub.org. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN 10A by Maggie Shipstead Read by Mark Deakins Mark Bramhall Ari Fliakos George Newbern Kyla Garcia Alex McKenna Xe Sands Rebecca Lowman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "2017 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2017-01-25. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ Saricks, Joyce (2018-02-28). "Audio Stars for Youth: 2017". Booklist. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ Saricks, Joyce (2018-04-15). "Top 10 Youth Historical Fiction on Audio: 2018". Booklist. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Youth, 2017". Booklist. 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ Coreno, Annie (2018-01-05). "The Best Audiobooks of 2017". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "AudioFile Magazine Spotlight on Narrator". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ^ "2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2022-10-01.