Daniel Banks is a theatre director, deviser, and educator with roots in movement theatre and new play development. He has worked in twenty-three countries and thirty-six states on such projects as the Eastern European premiere of ANNA IN THE TROPICS by Nilo Cruz at the Belarussian National Theatre, the African premiere of August Wilson's JITNEY at the Ugandan National Theatre, DEEP AZURE by Chadwick Boseman at the DC Hip Hop Theatre Festival, and TAP INTO PEACE at Playhouse Square, Cleveland. Daniel is co-director, with Adam McKinney, of the arts and service organization DNAWORKS, Associate Director of Theatre Without Borders, and serves on the national cabinet of the grassroots U.S. Department of Arts and Culture. He is a published author including editor of SAY WORD! VOICES FROM HIP HOP THEATRE (University of Michigan Press) and co-editor of CASTING A MOVEMENT: THE WELCOME TABLE INITIATIVE (with Dr. Claire Syler, Routledge). He is a recipient of the Alan Schneider Director Award from Theatre Communications Group and, with DNAWORKS, the MAP Fund Award and the Presidential Pathfinder Award from Black Theatre Network. Daniel and DNAWORKS have convened the 1012 Leadership Coalition, an cohort of organizations based in Fort Worth, TX, to acquire the former Ku Klux Klan Klavern No. 101 meeting hall and transform it into an international center and museum for the arts and community healing. The 1012 Leadership Coalition represents the groups and communities targeted by the KKK in the 1920s, when it was built, and returns resources to the communities that were oppressed and traumatized by the Klan. www.tinyurl.com/1012prospectus