Nataki Garrett is a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program 2005-2007. She is the Artistic Director of Blank-the-Dog Productions (BTD) , a Los Angeles based ensemble theatre company.

She is currently working on a new project with the working title Utopia Project, an adaptation based on the utopian novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamny. Garrett recently directed the world premiere of Wet, an opera written by Terese Svoboda and Composed by Anne Lebaron, which premiered at Roy and Edna Disney Calarts Theater (REDCAT) on December 1, 2005. Currently Wet is being re-written and will be workshopped this May as Crescent City at the New York City Opera. Other productions include, Trippin' with No Luggage, a comical, scathingly political one woman show written and performed by Amanda Maria Lorca, which Garrett produced and directed for BTD and premiered in the NEW WORKS festival in Los Angeles in June 2005; The Revolution Will Not be Televised, a deeply moving autobiographical Hip-Hopera, written and performed by Shahine Modaberri. Both productions were produced by special arrangement with the Festival Theatre at Venue 13 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2005, additionally both are being remounted as a benefit for Hurricane Katrina Survivors in October 2005; Fiction, a new “musical” conceived and written by Stew, an internationally renowned musician and writer whose current project Travelogue is in workshop at the Public Theatre this fall; Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, which she produced and directed for BTD at the Lee Strasberg Theatre November 2004; Why We Believe which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2004; the World Premiere of Couples Counseling by Carey Lovelace which opened at the REDCAT in Los Angeles in June of 2004; “Life's a Dream” by Pedro Calderon de la Barca for NYU Tisch School of the Arts in NYC; The Joy of the Desolate by Oliver Meyer for The Center for New Theatre; Dino, written and performed by Brian Buckley for Blank-the-Dog BTD at the Elephant Asylum in Hollywood, CA; l.o.l. written and performed by Charles Leonard, produced by Theatre Emory at PushPush Theatre in Atlanta, GA; Canada Lee by Mona Smith about the actor and political activist of the same name who died in poverty after being blacklisted during the McCarthy Era, produced by The Lee Strasberg Theatre in Los Angeles in 2001; 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, at the Skirball Cultural Arts Center in Brentwood, CA. While attending CalArts, Garrett directed The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, Fences by August Wilson, her thesis and second year project respectively. Nataki Garrett is also an accomplished producer, producing plays for Blank-The-Dog as well as independent producing. Most recently she produced The Blacks for the Evidence Room in Los Angeles, directed by Lee Richardson.

Nataki Garrett received her MFA in directing from CalArts.