She performed as part of American Opera Projects “Opera Grows in Brooklyn” series, at HERE, the Stone, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, and the Lucerne Festival, among others. As a resident artist at HERE, Kamala created Miranda, a steampunk murder mystery opera called “enjoyable, utterly original opera” (New York Post) and “among the very best theater achievements of 2012” (NYTheater.com). She was the 2011 Con Edison/Exploring the Metropolis Composer-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy and the 2012 Composer-in-Residence at the Eugene O’Neil Theater. She is the recent recipient of a 2013 Jonathan Larson Award. Kamala is currently a composer-in-residence with American Lyric Theater's Composer Librettist Development Program.