Donnie L. Betts

donnie l. betts has been a part of Colorado’s radio, stage and television landscape for more than three decades. The former actor began his career in radio after attending Fresno State in California. He studied at the Yale School of Drama. He is an accomplished actor, producer, director, filmmaker, storyteller and teacher with a career that has spanned 25 years. He has performed on Broadway in “The Gospel at Colonus” with Morgan Freeman and in many regional theater productions including over 13 seasons at the Denver Center Theater Company including 2019 immersive production “Between Us”. betts is set to direct The Mountain Top in August of 2019

betts has received four CABJ (Colorado Association of Black Journalists) Scribes in Excellence Awards plus Radio Journalist of the Year for “Destination Freedom: Black Radio Days”, the radio series originally created by Richard Durham over 50 years ago.