Garret Lee Milton is an interdisciplinary teaching artist from Washington, DC. His areas of research and practice include playwriting, dramaturgy, theatre theory and history, poetics, continental philosophy, and pedagogical methods. Garret’s plays have received staged readings and productions throughout the United States and abroad, including such venues as The Kennedy Center, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Cleveland Play House, The Grandel, and Orkater in Amsterdam. He has presented original drama and scholarship through the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Mid-America Theatre Conference, the Southeastern Theatre Conference, the International Theatre Institute, and some of his work can be found in Third Coast Magazine, 3 Elements Review, and Southern Theatre.

Garret is a member of the Dramatists Guild, an advocate of new play development initiatives and programs, and served as an ambassador for Playwrights’ Center. He received his MFA in Playwriting from CUA in Washington, DC, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Tech University. He was awarded the Young Scholar’s Award for Graduate Research in 2022 (SETC) and is a recipient of Texas Tech University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean’s Research and Travel Grant for his international work with Emmy-nominated director, Titus Tiel Groenestege (The Playwright & The Producer). Garret is also the literary director and one of the creative directors for Eunoia Theatre Company.