A veteran stage and screen performer, Garrett is also one of the founders of Deaf Broadway, a collective of Deaf actors who make theatrical productions visually accessible in American Sign Language. Recently, this past September, he directed INTO THE WOODS at Lincoln Center with a cast of ten Deaf actors.
After his big break in the lead role of Huckleberry Finn in Deaf West’s Broadway production of BIG RIVER, Garrett has never stopped working. Notably, he can be seen a featured role in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck alongside Julianne Moore and Millicent Simmonds and has been both murdered and a murderer on television in shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Also a writer and director, he has been twice honored with the Jean Kennedy Smith playwriting award from the Kennedy Center (for QUID PRO QUO and HARD PLACES), in addition to many other awards and prizes. His short film, The Witnesses, won the 2020 Seattle Deaf Film Festival competition and another film he wrote and directed, Flirting, with Possibilities, in which he also stars in alongside several other Broadway actors, is currently wrapping up post-production for the 2022 film festival circuit.
A magna cum laude graduate of the theatre and writing programs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, he is currently in the final year of his MFA studies in playwriting at Hunter College in New York City where he holds a perfect 4.0+ GPA. This past January, he took advantage of his winter break to host a weekly reading series of the four new plays he wrote during his first semester, one of which – HARD PLACES – was featured in April as part of Roundabout Theatre’s Reverb Theatre Festival. In addition, a second play - ALCESTIS 2020 - won the 2021 Zarkower Award from Hunter College in recognition of exemplary achievement by a first-year MFA student.
Dedicated to bringing authentic Deaf voices to the mainstream, he continues to advocate for awareness and representation within the theatre and film industries.
After his big break in the lead role of Huckleberry Finn in Deaf West’s Broadway production of BIG RIVER, Garrett has never stopped working. Notably, he can be seen a featured role in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck alongside Julianne Moore and Millicent Simmonds and has been both murdered and a murderer on television in shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Also a writer and director, he has been twice honored with the Jean Kennedy Smith playwriting award from the Kennedy Center (for QUID PRO QUO and HARD PLACES), in addition to many other awards and prizes. His short film, The Witnesses, won the 2020 Seattle Deaf Film Festival competition and another film he wrote and directed, Flirting, with Possibilities, in which he also stars in alongside several other Broadway actors, is currently wrapping up post-production for the 2022 film festival circuit.
A magna cum laude graduate of the theatre and writing programs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, he is currently in the final year of his MFA studies in playwriting at Hunter College in New York City where he holds a perfect 4.0+ GPA. This past January, he took advantage of his winter break to host a weekly reading series of the four new plays he wrote during his first semester, one of which – HARD PLACES – was featured in April as part of Roundabout Theatre’s Reverb Theatre Festival. In addition, a second play - ALCESTIS 2020 - won the 2021 Zarkower Award from Hunter College in recognition of exemplary achievement by a first-year MFA student.
Dedicated to bringing authentic Deaf voices to the mainstream, he continues to advocate for awareness and representation within the theatre and film industries.