# Kyla Garcia

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 and attended High Tech High School. She began acting at age 8 and at age 15, played Dorothy in an Off-Broadway production of Oz: A Twisted Musical. Shortly after, she began attending Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University.
As of 2022, Garcia lives in Los Angeles.

## Awards and honors
### Awards

| Year | Title | Award/Honor | Result |
| 2015 | Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2015 | The Mare by Mary Gaitskill | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2016 | Christodora by Tim Murphy | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2016 | Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | Top 10 |
| 2016 | A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, edited by Lucia Berlin and Stephen Emerson | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2018 | Hope Nation (2018), edited by Rose Brock | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2018 | Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2018 | Puddin' by Julie Murphy | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2018 | Refugee by Alan Gratz | Audie Award for Middle Grade Title | Finalist |
| 2019 | Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2019 | Suggested Reading by Dave Connis | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2019 | There There by Tommy Orange | Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance | Finalist |
| 2019 | We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2021 | How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2021 | Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers by David Grann | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2021 | Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski | Earphone Award | Winner |
| 2022 | How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | Top 10 |
| 2022 | Class Act by Jerry Craft | Audie Award for Middle Grade Title | Finalist |
| 2022 | Class Act by Jerry Craft | Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance | Finalist |
| 2022 | You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories by Maggie Shipstead | Earphone Award | Winner |

### "Best of" lists

| Year | Title | List |
| 2017 | The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults |
| 2017 | Refugee by Alan Gratz | Booklist's Audio Stars for Youth |
| 2017 | Refugee by Alan Gratz | Booklist's Best Youth Historical Fiction on Audio |
| 2017 | Refugee by Alan Gratz | Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Youth |
| 2017 | Refugee by Alan Gratz | Publishers Weekly Best Children's/YA Audiobook |
| 2018 | Hope Nation (2018), edited by Rose Brock | AudioFile Best of Young Adult |
| 2020 | We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults |
| 2022 | Class Act by Jerry Craft | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults |

## Filmography

Garcia's film and television credits :
| Media | Year | Title | Role(s) | Note |
| Film | 1998 | The Object of My Affection | Chorus Singer | Uncredited |
| Film | 1999 | Just Looking | Student | Uncredited |
| Film | 2013 | Shotgun Wedding | Reporter Pamela White | |
| Film | 2018 | To Each, Her Own (English) | Additional voices | |
| Film | 2018 | Yucatán (English edition) | Veronica | |
| Short | 2010 | The Bare Nekked Chef | Kyla Fiber | |
| Short | 2011 | Heavy | Mara | |
| Short | 2012 | Here Today | Woman | |
| Short | 2012 | Limits | Nurse | |
| Short | 2012 | Make Believe | Lily | |
| Short | 2012 | Sweet Tooth | Lunch Lady | |
| Short | 2013 | Sink | Woman | |
| Short | 2014 | Chatty Cathy Goes to Yoga | Yogi | |
| Short | 2015 | Time Capsule | Claire Rodriguez | |
| Short | 2018 | Bday Bail | Annette | |
| Short | 2020 | Crystal | Crystal | |
| Short | 2020 | The Exchange | Kwanita | |
| Short | 2020 | An Unkindness of Ravens | Dr. Emily Parker | |
| Short | 2021 | Waking Up 80 | Nurse | |
| Short | | Herstory 101: John Smith was a F*ckboy | Dagmar Rodriguez | |
| TV series | 2012 | Inside Room 334 | Patricia | 1 episode |
| TV series | 2014 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Mrs. Zeller | "Beginning of the End" |
| TV series | 2018 | The Incredible Life of Darrell | Reporter | 1 episode |
| TV series | 2019 | Blackwater | Birdie Blackwater | |
| TV series | 2017-2020 | Cable Girls (English) | Lidia Aguilar | 42 episodes |
| TV series | 2021 | New Amsterdam | Teri | 1 episode |
| TV series | 2022 | The Wright Turn | Detective Warren | 2 episodes |
| TV series | 2024 | Spirit Rangers | Łmłaná | 1 episode |
| TV series | | Olga Dies Dreaming | Mom in love with Prieto | 1 episode |
| Video game | 2018 | Dynasty Warriors 9 (English) | Bao Sanniang Zhang Chunhua | |