Adán Bean

Adán Bean is an accomplished multihyphenate — spoken word poet, emcee, writer, host, storyteller, and creative director who hails from Ohio but has called Atlanta home for over twenty years. Adán was awarded the 2023 Arts & Social Justice Fellowship for Emory University, where he served as a teaching artist at Oxford College. After bringing his talents to the Kennedy Center in 2020, Adán was awarded the Serenbe Frances Focus Fellowship from the South Fulton Institute. Adán Bean filmed a Tiny Desk concert performance and directed the short documentary “Curb Appeal,” which tackles the issues of housing insecurity and home inequity. As a 2019 TEDx speaker and 2017 National Poetry Slam song winner, he’s represented Atlanta on numerous slam teams for the PSI National Poetry Slam Competition. His work has been featured on or with companies/brands such as Change.org, TEDx, Habitat for Humanity, AT&T, CarMax, Coca-Cola, Cricket Wireless, Delta Airlines, SONY Music Group, Def Jam, Cash Money Records, and more. When Adán Bean is not working on his sophomore EP or his first work of collected poems and essays, he curates Good*Night, a monthly variety show at Buteco (Grant Park) featuring music, comedy, and spoken word.