Dan Martin - Director 

The director of the “Nat Turner: Following Faith“, Dan Martin is an actor, director, and photographer, who has been a busy and familiar face in TV and film. He was a nominee for the NAACP Image Award as Best Actor in a Daytime Drama. His stage credits as an actor include stints with the famed Negro Ensemble Company in New York in “A Soldiers Play” and in “Ceremonies in Dark Old Men“. Other plays with other companies include “Streamers”, “The Guys in the Truck”, “Hamlet”, “Split Second”, the national tour of Lee Blessing’s “Cobb” directed by Lloyd Richards, the international European tour of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, and many more. He has appeared in many of LA‘s, Towne Street Theater productions including “Nevis Mountain Dew” and “Five on the Black Hand Side.” He was previously seen here at Theater/Theatre in “The Motor Trade” and “No Chance in Hell”, both directed by Jeff Murray. In addition to plays in NY and around the country as an actor, he was also director of many plays such as, “For Colored Girls….”, “The River Niger”, Ron Milner’s “A Theme for Linda”, and the dark fantasy, “A Bag of Magic”. He directed both “Southern Girls” by Dura Temple and Sheri Bailey and “IRIS” by Jaimyon Parker, at the Complex Theater in Hollywood. He has directed both August Wilson’s “Fences” and Levy Lee Simon’s “The Bow Wow Club”, for the National Black Theater Festival. He directed the national tour of Ella Joyce’s one woman tribute to Rosa Parks, “A Rose Among Thorns”. He also directed the short film “When Night Comes” for E Hubbard Productions. On film Dan has appeared in “Beverly Hills Cop #3,” “Heat”, “Steven King’s Sleepwalkers”, “Rush Hour”, “Enough” “Leprechaun in the Hood”, and “The Gridiron Gang”. On TV he’s been seen in “Laurel Avenue”, “The Grinder”, “Code Black” “Malcolm in the Middle” and many more. For many years, he has appeared as Lt. Baker on CBS’s “The Bold & the Beautiful”.