Bio
André Garner, an accomplished actor, has performed on stages all over the world.
Garner’s Broadway credits include How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Music Man, Marie Christine, and Grease. Off-Broadway, he starred as the title character in Langston Hughes’s Little Ham, as well as performing in From My Hometown. Garner appeared in the national touring productions of The Color Purple, Dreamgirls, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Miss Saigon. Internationally, he toured with the European and Asian companies of A Chorus Line.
Garner has performed in many of the country’s most reputable regional theaters, including in Pipeline at Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT), the Ford’s Theater production of Children of Eden (Cain), the Goodspeed Opera House and North Shore Music Theater co-production of Abyssinia (Minister), Pioneer Theater’s Five Guys Named Moe (Nomax), and Barrington Stage Company’s The Human Comedy (Trainman). Garner has also been part of New York City Center’s acclaimed Encores! concert productions of Cabin in the Sky, Lost in the Stars, and Broadway Bash 2003. He also appeared as Little Albert in the Actor’s Fund benefit performance of Dreamgirls starring Audra McDonald, Heather Headley, and Billy Porter.
Garner has taught at Ball State University, Baruch College, New York Film Academy, and California State University, Long Beach. His professional memberships include SAG-AFTRA and the Actor’s Equity Association, and he currently serves on the executive board of the Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance.
Garner received a BS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and an MFA from California State University, Long Beach.
