Career
Garcia left university to take the role of the Slide in the production of the musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, which toured Australia for two years before transferring to London, England. Garcia stayed on in London to act in West End musicals.
Garcia's career as a film actor began in 1997, when he played Jones in Wilde, a film about the life of writer Oscar Wilde. Garcia played Tony Manero, in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever, which ran from 1998 to 1999 in London. Garcia reached No. 15 in the UK singles chart in 1998, with his cover version of the Bee Gees song "Night Fever", taken from Saturday Night Fever. Garcia's second feature film performance was a major role in the 2000 film Coyote Ugly. later in 2000 he played the role of Sean in Bootmen, a film based on the Tapdogs story. Also in 2004 he played a role alongside Lindsey Lohan and Megan Fox in the film Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen as the character Stu Wolff, a drunk rockstar, who is part of the band "Sidarther" and he is in Lola's words "a greater poet than Shakespeare".
In 2006-07, he starred as Fiyero in the original London production of Wicked alongside Idina Menzel (later replaced by Kerry Ellis) and Helen Dallimore. He previously played the role during the show's early Broadway workshops in 2000.
In the latter part of 2008, Garcia appeared in two ITV dramas, Britannia High in which he plays the dance teacher, and Mr Eleven, a two-part comedy/drama alongside Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire. He is currently working on an indie film A Woman Called Job. In January 2010 Garcia appeared alongside Ashley Banjo and Kimberly Wyatt as a judge on the reality show Got To Dance.
In 2011, Garcia was cast in two part comedy drama, The Hen Do, which will be set in Ibiza and co-star Mischa Barton. The show was co-written by Lucy Brown and Olivia Poulet and will be produced by Andy Serkis and John Cavendish.
In 2012, Garcia appeared in The West End dance show Revolution side Kimberley Wyatt and the finest commercial dancer and choreographers. The show was staged in the prestigious Theatre Royal Haymarket in Piccadilly Circus on Sundays from May 6th - June 10th 2012.
During the Summer of 2012, Garcia appeared in Kiss Me Kate opening in the Chichester Festival Theatre from 18 June 2012 to 1 September 2012. Kiss Me Kate is directed by Trevor Nunn, choreographed by Stephen Meare and Score by Cole Poter. Kiss me Kate will open on West End in The Old Vic from 20 November 2012.
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