Bio
Garret Schneider was born in a bubble in the middle of Maine and has spent his entire life learning to thrive in it.
His early stages of writing started in performance / SLAM poetry, and made the transition into plays while at Lehigh University. He graduated with a BA in Mathematics and Theatre from Lehigh University -- an artistic dichotomy, which was reflected in his first play: "Proud Beasts", centered around amphetamine-addicted mathematicians.
His one-act, "Franky and Zoza", awarded him a place in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, and he studied under Lee Blessing, Chay Yew, Marsha Norman, Mark Bly, Heather McDonald, Gary Garrison, Melanie Marnich, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
The MFA Playwriting program at Ohio University has been Garret's artistic home for the past two years, and he will be graduating in Spring of 2010.
For the two years after Lehigh and before Ohio, Garret was a company member in Maine's Heartwood Regional Theater Company, and was in the New England premier of Will Eno's one-man show, "Thom Pain: Based on Nothing".
Technology, those striving to be godlike, and exploring the definition of family is at the artistic heart of Garret's work.
His early stages of writing started in performance / SLAM poetry, and made the transition into plays while at Lehigh University. He graduated with a BA in Mathematics and Theatre from Lehigh University -- an artistic dichotomy, which was reflected in his first play: "Proud Beasts", centered around amphetamine-addicted mathematicians.
His one-act, "Franky and Zoza", awarded him a place in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, and he studied under Lee Blessing, Chay Yew, Marsha Norman, Mark Bly, Heather McDonald, Gary Garrison, Melanie Marnich, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
The MFA Playwriting program at Ohio University has been Garret's artistic home for the past two years, and he will be graduating in Spring of 2010.
For the two years after Lehigh and before Ohio, Garret was a company member in Maine's Heartwood Regional Theater Company, and was in the New England premier of Will Eno's one-man show, "Thom Pain: Based on Nothing".
Technology, those striving to be godlike, and exploring the definition of family is at the artistic heart of Garret's work.
Garret is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
