A veteran stage and screen performer, Garrett is also one of the founders of Deaf Broadway, a collective of professional Deaf actors who make previously-filmed theatre productions visually accessible in American Sign Language.
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 an avid writer and director, he is a two-time honoree of the Jean Kennedy Smith playwriting award from the Kennedy Center (for QUID PRO QUO and HARD PLACES), as well as 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.
A magna cum laude graduate of the theatre and writing programs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, he is currently midway through 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’s Reverb Theatre Festival. In addition, a second play - ALCESTIS 2020 - won the Zarkower Award from Hunter College at the end of the school year 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 an avid writer and director, he is a two-time honoree of the Jean Kennedy Smith playwriting award from the Kennedy Center (for QUID PRO QUO and HARD PLACES), as well as 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.
A magna cum laude graduate of the theatre and writing programs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, he is currently midway through 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’s Reverb Theatre Festival. In addition, a second play - ALCESTIS 2020 - won the Zarkower Award from Hunter College at the end of the school year 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.