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Alvin Daniels

Alvin Daniels

Senior Lecturer

Contact Information

Phone: (773) 995-2502
Email: adanie21@csu.edu
Office: DH 114

Alvin Daniels is a producer and playwright who has been producing entertaining television, film, and video projects for over 35 years. Upon graduating from Boston University in 1988, Daniels began his career in the tape room at Public Broadcasting System, Channel 20 in Chicago. His grandfather, the late Rev. Dr. Hezekiah B. Brady, owned a large warehouse on the Southside of Chicago, and this is where Daniels began producing commercials and TV shows through an independent company he formed called Halsted Studios, Inc. While in this space, he also produced videos for the multiplatinum rap group, Crucial Conflict and was nominated for an Emmy for a jazz special produced out of the warehouse called 鈥淟ive From The Warehouse鈥 which aired on PBS.

Since that time, Alvin has traveled the globe producing productions in the Bahamas, Egypt, Canada and most notably South Africa. He was nominated for an Emmy for his television special, 鈥淗ope, Help and Healing: Ending Domestic Violence鈥 for PBS. Daniels dubbed, 鈥淭he Prince of Documentaries鈥 by Entreprenuer Magazine lists productions 鈥淔irst Step Basketball: Family Away From Family鈥 (Prime), 鈥淎lways A Winner: Roy Curry, A Quarterback Ahead of His Time鈥 (HBCUgo), 鈥淐hase The Sun鈥 (HULU) among some of his projects. Alvin鈥檚 signature project is 鈥淧reachers Kids: The Untold Stories,鈥 created as a stage play series that chronicles the lives of PK鈥檚 and their struggles to support their parents in the ministry has been turned into a TV series on Prime and Tubi. There is also an animated version of the series in distribution.

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