Garrett Bell

Garrett Bell is a composer/lyricist/playwright working in New York City. After a childhood enriched by over a dozen music teachers he received his formal training at Emerson College where he received a BFA in Musical Theatre. His musical material has been compiled into the irreverent song cycle HIPSTERS DRINKING COFFEE, and he provided book and lyrics for the short musical THE BALLAD OF ELISA LAM. His writing has been featured by Z Publishing House and Rattle Poetry and he was recently accepted by the HBMG Foundation as a writer for the National Winter Playwriting Retreat. He and collaborator Jonathan W. Colby recently completed their musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, BY MOONLIGHT, and he is currently working on his next musical: THE LOST BOYS; a vignette style show that examines the generation of gay men who grew up without role models. Selected plays include REQUIEM, a play in three acts that examines the role of death as if defines human relationships in three different points of life; UNE COMEDIE FRANÇAISE, a one act satirical telling of Louis the 16th’s final days and how it serves as an allegory for the natural rise and fall of governments; and THE LAST RITES OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, an unexpected comedy that challenges the institution of religion and its alleged monopoly on morality during the dark ages (or America today). In his spare time Garrett also likes cooking meals his cats deem "passable" and writing short biographies about himself.  Graduate of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.