Bio

Tre Garrett

Award winning stage and screen director and writer, Tre Garrett, is the current Artistic Director for Jubilee Theatre, creating and presenting theatrical works that reflect the African-American experience.

Tre Garrett is a former Show Director for Walt Disney Entertainment. He is a two time recipient of the N.A.A.C.P Act- So Gold Medal and has received two National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts awards. He is a graduate of the prestigious High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and holds a BFA in Directing from the University North Carolina School of the Arts (Conservatory) and an MFA in Directing from the Academy of Art University. As a director, Mr. Garrett is a Eugene O’Neill Playwright’s Conference Directing fellow, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographer’s John Gielgud Directing Fellow and Kenan Institute for the Arts Directing Fellow. Mr. Garrett was is the 2005 Director in Residence for the John F. Kennedy Center and the 2009 Culley Guest Artist Grant recipient.

Mr. Garrett has directed theatre, opera, concerts, short films and live performances all over the United States and has assistant directed with directors such as:

• Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan (Julius Caesar on Broadway starring Denzel Washington)
• Tony Award winner Leonard Foglia (On Golden Pond, starring James Earl Jones)
• Debbie Allen (Dancing In The Wings) Kennedy Center
• Ricardo Kahn (Color Me Dark) a Kennedy Center national tour
• Je’carius Johnson (Friends and Lovers)- the National tour
• Charles Randolph Wright (Cuttin’ Up) at Arena Stage.

“As a writer I am interested in exploring the subcultures of America, I want to present stories and characters that often go unseen, so that there is a true diversity to the way we present, view and value our culture. Art educates wonderfully”

Mr. Garrett’s play “Rain and Rivers” produced for New Horizons Theatre Company’s 03-04 season earned two AACTA Onyx Awards . His plays “Color and Light” and “Thats Got His Own” earned him two NAACP ACTSO awards and an NFAA Arts award. His play “Creole Fire” was chosen for the New South Youth Playwrights Festival in Atlanta where he developed two new plays, “Loving Langston” and “A Month of Sundays”, both produced for Horizons Theatre’s Young Playwrights festival.