For our first podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking to Garrett Heater. Garrett Heater has been a music educator for 13 years, currently teaching in NYC while pursuing a Theatre MA from CUNY Hunter College. As artistic director of Syracuse Summer Theatre at The Oncenter, he has directed Damn Yankees, Pippin, Spring Awakening, and Cabaret. Also a playwright, three of his original productions have been produced at the International New York Fringe Festival - FringeNYC, including Playing God, Lizzie Borden Took an Axe, and Lincoln's Blood. His short plays The Drop and Beige is the New Plum Crazy have received national festival productions. He has produced 10 original youth musicals, including Gumshoe Louie and the Case of the Missing Vase and Queen Hippolyta and the Movie Martians from Mars. He resides in Syracuse, New York and received his Masters in Music Education from Syracuse University.