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Justine Garrett

Lecturer
EducationMFA in Creative Writing, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) BA in Psychology, cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
https://www.justinegarrett.com (external link) 

Justine Garrett is a writer, director, and producer whose work spans film, television, and immersive media. She wrote and produced Groundworks, a one-hour documentary distributed by American Public Television with more than 1,000 PBS airings, and served as director and producer for Captain Me, a 12-episode streaming series for children with disabilities. Her interactive storytelling has been featured at the Future of Storytelling Festival (New York) and FuturePlay at the Edinburgh Fringe (Scotland).

Garrett is co-author of “From Extractive to Ethical: Community Memorandums of Understanding for Ethical Storytelling” in Cultural Appropriation, Pedagogy and Higher Education (University of Regina Press, forthcoming 2025). Her play Giving Day appears in All Good Things Must Begin: Short Plays Imagining the Future. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, and Vision Maker Media, and she teaches screenwriting, narrative design, and production at Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Toronto.