 Notably, Garfein produced two plays by Arthur Miller, "The Price" and "The American Clock", and went on to direct other Broadway productions such as "The Sin of Pat Muldoon", and "Girls of Summer".His Off-Broadway credits include "The Lesson" and "Rommel's Garden" (1985), "Childhood" with Glenn Close (1985), "For No Good Reason" by Nathalie Saurraute (1985), "Kurt Weill Cabaret" with Alvin Epstein and Marta Schlamme (1985), "Endgame" (1984), The Beckett Plays ("Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, What Where") (1983–84), Anton Chekhov's "Sketchbook" with Joseph Buloff and John Heard (1981), "California Reich" and "The Lesson" by Eugène Ionesco (1978–79), as well as The Beckett Plays in The Warehouse Theatre in London (1984).He directed the French premiere of "Master Harold"...and the Boys in Paris, and the world premiere of "Nacht und Träume" by Samuel Beckett in Austria.