Davidson Garrett is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. He trained for the theater at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the Herbert Berghof Studio in Greenwich Village where he was a student of Alice Spivak. A graduate of the City College of New York with a B.A. and M.S. in Education, Davidson taught school in the South Bronx for a number of years developing arts curriculum for early childhood students.

A member of Actors' Equity, Screen Actors Guild, and AFTRA, he has appeared on television in such shows as All My Children, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Law and Order, Oz, and Spin City. For the last several years he has worked as a background actor and stand-in on feature films, including work with the directors Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese.

As a stage actor, he has toured extensively in the United States and Europe, and has performed in verse dramas by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and William Shakespeare.
 
His poetry and prose have been published in The New York Times, The Episcopal New Yorker, Xavier Review (New Orleans), Sensations Magazine, The Unknown Writer, and The Wild Angels Poets and Writers Anthology, and online at poetryvlog.com and  BigCityLit.com. He has been a featured reader at The LGBT Community Center in NYC as part of the In Our Own Write Series and at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe for their Fifth Night Screenplay Series. Other featured venues include Smalls Jazz Club, The Cornelia Stree Cafe, ahd The CUNY Graduate School. In July 2006, Davidson made his solo reading debut at The World Monuments Fund Gallery at The Prince George in Midtown Manhattan. In early 2007, he was invited to give a series of readings for the Queensborough Public Library. In December 2007, Davidson was awarded Honorable Mention by The Beat Museum in San Francisco for their Poet-of-the-Month contest. In March, 2008, Flashgun Films of Great Britain released a short film entitled: "Taxi Driver." This film used poems from "King Lear of the Taxi" with Davidson Garrett as the voice-over narrator reading his poems.