Garrett Turner

Garrett Turner

A native of Florence, Alabama, Garrett Turner is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. Garrett majored in music and creative writing at Emory, where he recently served as an Arts and Social Justice Fellow using theatre to honour known victims of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre. He is currently performing on Broadway in Thoughts of a Colored Man.

Garrett has studied at the University of St. Andrews as a Bobby Jones Scholar and holds masters degrees from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Queen Mary. He is currently writing Eleanor: A Church Story, a musical about a young Black woman from Tennessee who stages a mini revolution in her church when she is banned from preaching because she’s a girl.

In 2019, Garrett worked alongside Syracuse drama students while premiering Thoughts of a Colored Man with Syracuse Stage before the show transferred to Broadway. He continues that collaboration as part of the “Climates of Resistance Raise Your Voice” project each semester, helping students consider how we can use music and art to advocate for sustainable justice. He also MCs the “Climates of Resistance” Community Showcase where the music video premieres.