Faculty/Staff Directory
Nataki Garrett
Associate Dean; Co-Head of BFA Acting Program
E-Mail:
Phone: 661.291.3022
Fax: 661.255.0462
Room: E123-2
A recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program 2005-2007, Nataki Garrett is the co-Artistic Director of Blank-the-Dog Productions (BTD); a Los Angeles/New York based ensemble Theater Company. Her most recent BTD projects: With funding from the Trans-Atlantic Consortium and support from the Center for New Performance Garrett is currently developing Carolyn Bryant, a project about Emmett Till and the woman for whom the 14 year old was brutally murdered in 1955 – recently performed at REDCAT Winter Studio 2009; Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist by Thomas Bradshaw – LA premiere at Open Space; Week #29 of 365 Plays/Days by Suzan-Lori Parks premiered at Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles; With BTD, Garrett received a residency with the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre’s DPI
program in 2007.
Additional Productions (truncated): June and Jean in Concert by Adrienne Kennedy at CalArts; Ochre and Onyx: The Langston Hughes Project at Watts Village Theatre Company; Black Women State of the Union: An Evening of Plays by Black Women at Company of Angels in Los Angeles. The World Premiere of Smoke Lilies and Jade by Carl Hancock Rux (Center for New Performance); Sucktion Libretto by Doug Kearney, Composed by Anne Lebaron (REDCAT NOW FEST 2009); They Call Me Wanjiku by Mumbi Kiagwa at The Martin E. Seagal Theatre Center in NY (in development); Coffee Will Make You Black adapted by Michael Shepperd at Celebration Theatre; Las Meninas by Lynn Nottage at CalArts; Wet (World Premiere), an opera written by Terese Svoboda and Composed by Anne Lebaron, which premiered at Roy and Edna Disney Calarts Theatre (REDCAT). For LATW: Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon; Tape by Steven Belber; 16 Wounded by Eliam Kraiem; and The Living Room by Graham Greene for L.A. Theatre Works audio theatre collection and for NPR, recorded live at the Skirball Cultural Arts Center.
In addition to her directing, Nataki Garrett the Associate Producer of ETI! East Africa Speaks at Dartmouth College Summer of Africas 2008 and the co-curator for REDCAT’s Studio Series in the fall and spring of 2007. In 2005, Garrett co-produced The Blacks for the Evidence Room in Los Angeles, directed by Lee Richardson. Nataki Garrett is on the Performance Faculty and is the Co- Head of Undergraduate Acting at California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in directing.
