A profoundly Deaf stage and screen performer with an MFA in playwriting from Hunter College, 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. He has directed his own award-winning play QUID PRO QUO at the Kennedy Center and two separate Sondheim musicals at Lincoln Center: INTO THE WOODS in 2021 and SWEENEY TODD in 2022.
After his big break in the lead role of Huckleberry Finn in Deaf West’s Broadway production of BIG RIVER, Garrett never stopped working. Notably, he can be seen a featured role in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck alongside Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams and was the ill-fated murderer on an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent where he ended up getting chewed out by Vincent D'Onofrio.
As a writer, 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. In spring of 2021, HARD PLACES was featured 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. His short film, The Witnesses, won the 2020 Seattle Deaf Film Festival competition. Another short film he wrote and directed, Flirting, with Possibilities, in which he also stars in alongside Broadway actors such as Jason Tam, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and John-Andrew Morrison, recently made its world premiere in Paris, France in March of 2022 and continues to win awards at festivals around the world. He and his plays have repeatedly been finalists and semifinalists for development at places such as the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Center, the Anderson Center, Playwrights Realm, the Playwrights Center Core Fellowship, and the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship. In summer of 2022, he was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Adaptation Lab with the Orchard Project with his Deaf culture verse adaptation of Sophocles' PHILOCTETES.
A magna cum laude graduate of the theatre and writing programs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, he earned his MFA in playwriting from Hunter College in New York City in spring of 2022.
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 never stopped working. Notably, he can be seen a featured role in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck alongside Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams and was the ill-fated murderer on an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent where he ended up getting chewed out by Vincent D'Onofrio.
As a writer, 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. In spring of 2021, HARD PLACES was featured 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. His short film, The Witnesses, won the 2020 Seattle Deaf Film Festival competition. Another short film he wrote and directed, Flirting, with Possibilities, in which he also stars in alongside Broadway actors such as Jason Tam, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and John-Andrew Morrison, recently made its world premiere in Paris, France in March of 2022 and continues to win awards at festivals around the world. He and his plays have repeatedly been finalists and semifinalists for development at places such as the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Center, the Anderson Center, Playwrights Realm, the Playwrights Center Core Fellowship, and the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship. In summer of 2022, he was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Adaptation Lab with the Orchard Project with his Deaf culture verse adaptation of Sophocles' PHILOCTETES.
A magna cum laude graduate of the theatre and writing programs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, he earned his MFA in playwriting from Hunter College in New York City in spring of 2022.
Dedicated to bringing authentic Deaf voices to the mainstream, he continues to advocate for awareness and representation within the theatre and film industries.