Garrett Clayton

Garrett Clayton is an actor, singer, and dancer best known for his leading role in the hit Disney Channel musical franchise “Teen Beach Movie” and “Teen Beach 2,” as well as for starring alongside Jennifer Hudson, Ariana Grande, Kristin Chenoweth, and Harvey Fierstein as Link Larkin in NBC’s “Hairspray Live!” More recently, Clayton appeared as pop star Dustin Lumberlake in the live-action reboot of Nickelodeon’s “The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder,” which premiered on Paramount+ in 2022. Clayton has performed in regional theater productions at TUTS in Houston, TPAC in Nashville, Pasadena Playhouse, and other esteemed venues. No stranger to the stage, he has starred in a number of pantos and musical parodies, including in the lead role of Pennywise the Clown in “IT: A Musical Parody," for which he won an OVATION Award for Best Lead in a Musical before continuing on in a very well-reviewed, off-Broadway production in New York. Clayton also performed a solo set at the Tony Awards afterparty and toured his cabaret show "It Takes Three" up the West Coast, as well as sang with the American Pops Orchestra at the Smithsonian in Washington DC. During the pandemic, he garnered a substantial online following for his dancing, fashion, and beauty videos.