Actor, writer, film producer, and activist Daniel Beaty is living a dream
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Actor, writer, singer, and activist Daniel Beaty is living a dream. After 15 successful years of critically-acclaimed theater productions—including Through the Night, Emergency, Mr. Joy, Breath & Imagination—his outstanding portrayal of Paul Robeson in The Tallest Tree in the Forest, and the widely praised spoken-word masterpiece, Knock Knock, which has received more than 13 million views on YouTube, Beaty has co-written and now stars in his first screenplay Chapter & Verse. Chapter & Verse was inspired by Beaty’s family; his father and brother have each been in and out of the penal system and suffered many years from drug addiction. His father, Danny Beaty, once a notorious heroin dealer, has been incarcerated more than 60 times.