Daniel KOA Beaty has spent his life telling stories that share both the truth of who we are as people and his hope for a better world. He believes these stories have the power to move us and inspire us, as individuals and as a society, to transform ourselves and the world: to confront our pain, imagine a better world, and work together to achieve it.
KOA's award winning work includes his plays Through the Night, Emergency, Mr. Joy, and The Tallest Tree in the Forest – Paul Robeson.
KOA performances have been held in venues ranging from maximum security prisons, The Public Theater, Lincoln Center and the White House. He's garnered numerous awards including an Obie award for writing and performance and five NAACP Theater Awards.
KOA is a highly requested performer and keynote speaker throughout the U.S., Europe, and Africa. In these turbulent times of social change facing the nation, his work continually confronts, heals and nurtures us all.