Daniel Banks
Daniel Banks, Ph.D.
Daniel Banks, Ph.D. (African American drama and Hip-Hop) is full-time faculty in the Department of Undergraduate Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and has directed theatre extensively both in the US and abroad. He is the Founder and Director of the Hip Hop Theater Initiative, is a past Chair of the Black Theater Association Focus Group (Association for Theatre in Higher Education), and recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts / Theater Communications Group Career Development Program for Directors. He has edited Across All Lines, a critical anthology of Hip Hop Theater plays, for University of Michigan Press (due out Fall 2009). He holds a B. A. in English and Drama from Harvard College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University.
