 During those years, he created The New Horizon Players with whom he learned the art of directing and acting.In the following years Garfein was involved in such productions as "Home of the Brave" by Arthur Laurents, "Birthday of the Infanta", "Wolf Are You Ready?," and others.In 1948, Piscator cast him as the lead in his production of "The Burning Bush", the story of a young boy from an Orthodox Jewish family instigated by the antisemitic members of the Hungarian aristocracy to accuse his father and the Jewish community of committing the "blood libel".