Litpunk // The Digital Presence of Garret Schneider

Garret Schneider was born in Maine, a state where carnivorous moose roam the country side, lobsters attack unwary swimmers, and where modern-technology still has not penetrated.  Plied deep with northeast values and folklore, Garret became a writer.

His early stages of writing started in performance / SLAM poetry, and transitioned 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 where he studied under Lee Blessing, Chay Yew, Marsha Norman, Heather McDonald, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

For two years after Lehigh, Garret was a company member in Maine's Heartwood Regional Theater Company, and starred in the New England premier of Will Eno's one-man show, Thom Pain: Based on Nothing. 

The MFA Playwriting program at Ohio University served as Garret's artistic home for three years, where he wrote and directed workshop-productions of over sixty of his short plays, and readings of seven full length works.  

In 2009, Garret presented “On the Weekly Execution and Generation of New Plays at Ohio University” at the Mid-American Theater Conference, a paper deconstructing the new works process at Ohio University.  In 2010, he returned to the conference to present his ten-minute play A Stone’s Throw, Call Him 'Gene' in 2011, and again in 2012 with A Small Drop.

Having moved to Nashville in 2010, Garret participated in Nashville's Ten-Minute Playhouse for its last three iterations.   

Garret is now teaching Algebra in Nashville, TN and incorporating mathematics, education, and science into his next theater project.  The idea of children raising their parents, and exploring the definition of family is at the artistic heart of Garret's work.