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.
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]
Year | Title | Award/Honor | Result | Ref. |
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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] |
Year | Title | List | Ref. |
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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] |
Media | Year | Title | Role(s) | Note |
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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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