Daniel Banks has directed at such venues as National Theatre of Uganda; Belarussian National Drama Theatre; Market Theatre, South Africa; Playhouse Square, Cleveland; Bay Area Playwrights Festival; NYC and DC Hip Hop Theatre Festivals; Oval House and Teatro Technis (London); Bishop Arts Theatre Center (Dallas); and HERE Arts Center, Queens Theater in the Park, The Public Theater, and John Houseman Theatre (NYC). He worked as choreographer/movement director at Shakespeare in the Park/NY Shakespeare Festival, Theatre for a New Audience, Maurice Sendak’s The Night Kitchen, Singapore Rep, and La Monnaie (Brussels).

Daniel is the co-director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to dialogue and healing through the arts, engaging topics of representation, identity and heritage. Current projects: The Real James Bond…Was Dominican by/with Christopher Rivas (touring); Dreaming Emmett by Toni Morrison, a lost play about Emmett Till that has not been produced since 1986; and The Secret Sharer (recipient of the 2019 MAP Fund Award), an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novella, considered an early LGBTQ text, exploring fragility, tenderness, and intimacy in times of personal duress and societal discrimination.

Daniel served on the dramaturgical team for Camille A. Brown & Dancers (Black Girl: Linguistic Play and ink). He is founder of the Hip Hop Theatre Initiative, promoting youth self-expression and leadership. He is Associate Director of Theatre Without Borders and was a recipient of the Sallie B. Goodman Retreat at McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ. Daniel is editor of Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theater and co-editor of Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative. He is the recipient of Theatre Communication Group's 2020 Alan Schneider Director Award and twice recipient of "400 Most Influential People" in Fort Worth, TX.