Dennis A. Allen II was born and raised in Hempstead, New York. His play THE MUD IS THICKER IN MISSISSIPPI was a winner at the 35th annual Off-Off Broadway Samuel French Festival in 2010 directed by Dennis’s frequent collaborator Christopher Burris. He is a recipient of Atlantic Theater Company's inaugural 2014-15 Launch Commission, National Black Theatre's 2016-17 "I Am Soul Playwright Residency" and Clubbed Thumb's 2016-17 "Early Writers Group". He has received the Himan Brown Creative Writing Award two years running, and has developed and produced plays with The New Black Fest, The Lark Play Development Center, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Fire This Time Festival, Working Theater, New York Madness, The Bowery Poetry Club (Sticky), JACK, The Naked Expedition Project, 48 Hours in Harlem and the National Black Theatre. He serves as an Associate Producer for The New Black Fest and has Directed plays at The Public Theater, Theatre Row, The Kraine Theater, Playwright's Horizons and The Wild Project. Dennis received his MFA from Mac Wellman's Brooklyn College Playwriting program.

Organized by Frank Leon Roberts, Assistant Professor of Theater.

The Revolution Will Be Dramatized: Black Theater Now is a public conversation series organized by the Theater Program at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. A part of the Lang undergraduate course of the same name, the mission of the series is to introduce students to leading black theater artists, professionals, and practitioners whose work traverses the boundaries of art, politics, and social justice. What is the relationship between black theater and black activism? Moreover, what does it mean to think of black theater as activism? Inspired by the writer Toni Cade Bambara’s famous claim that “the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible” this public facing conversation series invites audiences to think about the ways in which theater---and the arts more broadly--- “matter” to the work of social justice.

All events are open to the public via webinar format and require registration. Zoom link will be sent in advance of the event.