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Dennis A. Allen II

251 Weir Street

Hempstead, NY 11550

516-712-7354

daa2nyc@gmail.com

EMPLOYMENT

 

MFA Playwriting Co- Program Director, English Department 

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY Jan 2022 - Present

 

Adjunct Professor Theatre Department Sept 2022- Present 

The New School, New York, NY 

 

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Humanities Department

LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY March 2019- Present

 

Adjunct Professor, Theatre and Dance Department

Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Sept 2019- Present 

 

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theater Department Sept 2022- Dec 2022 

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn NY

 

Faculty, Einhorn School of Performing Arts

Primary Stages, New York, NY             March 2021- Sept 2022

 

Teaching Artist, Creative Arts Team 

City University of New York, New York, NY Nov. 2016 – June 2020

 

Workshop Teacher, Atlantic Acting School

Atlantic Theater Company, New York, NY Sept. 2015 – August 2021

EDUCATION

 

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York. 

Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting, 2014

 

Molloy College. Rockville Centre, New York.

Bachelor of Arts in Communications, 2007 

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, 2009

 

AWARDS, GRANTS & HONORS

 

Clubbed Thumb, Early Career Writers Group 2017

National Black Theatre, I AM SOUL Playwright Resident 2016-17 

Djerassi Resident Artist Program, 2016

Atlantic Theater Company, Launch Commission 2014-15

Human Brown Creative Writing Award, 2011-12

35th Annual Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival, 2010

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Keen Teens Vol. 11, Concord Theatricals, 2024

The New Black Fest at the Apollo Plays, Concord Theatricals, 2024

The Fire This Time Festival Anthology, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

When We Wake Up Dead, Samuel French, Inc., 2020

48 Hours in… Harlem 10 Minute Plays, Vol. 2 Anthology, 2017 

Hands Up 7 Playwrights 7 Testaments, Samuel French, 2017

The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi, 35th OOB Samuel French Festival Plays, 2011

 

WRITING:

*sample excerpts available upon request

 

FULL LENGTH PLAYS

 

The Cost

Developed for The Lark, Roundtable Reading Series. January 2020 

 

Manhood

Developed during The National Black Theater of Harlem, I Am Soul Workshop Production, February 2017 (Russell G. Jones, Dir.)

-Counter-Productions Theatre Company, Readings in Autumn Series, September 2018 (Ronald Lewis Dir.)

 

The Man Monster Mary Jones

Developed for Atlantic Theater Company’s Launch Commission, December 2015 (Lileana Blain-Cruz, Dir.) 

 

When We Wake Up Dead 

 Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Future Classics Reading Series. February 2014 (Christopher Burris, Dir.) 

-Brooklyn College, The New Workshop Theater, March 2016 (Christopher Burris, Dir.) 

 

America’s Favorite Pastime

Developed for The New Black Fest/ Lark Play Development Center, March 2015 (Christopher Burris, Dir.) 

-Counter- Productions Theatre Company, Reading in Autumn Series, September 2015 ( Ted Clement, Dir.) 

 

The Special Technique of Shadow Boxing 

The National Black Theater of Harlem, Keep Soul Alive Reading Series, July 2014 (Christopher Burris Dir.) 

 

Never No in Between 

Liberation Theatre Company, New Works Reading Series, October 2011 (Christopher Burris Dir.) 

ONE-ACT PLAYS

 

The Odds Are… 

Keen Teens, Keen Company, Theatre Row, 2024 (Antu Yacob Dir.) 

 

Mother. 

The Fire This Time Festival, The Kraine Theatre, February 2014

The Naked Expedition Project, Theater Lab, January 2015 

 

Are You Not Entertained?

Part of the Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Blood Festival, CSC, August 2013 (Benjamin Kamine & Christopher Burris Dir.) 

 

SHORT PLAYS 

 

Thy Will Be Done

New Black Fest at the Apollo Readings,  Apollo Theater Harlem, April 2022 (Cezar Williams Dir.)

 

Traditional  

Now Africa Playwrights Festival, National Black Theatre, October 2016

TBTB’s The Other Plays, ART New York Theaters, March 2017 (Christopher Burris Dir.) 

 

How I Feel

Commissioned by The New Black Fest, Hands Up, The CUNY Grad Center, December 2014

 

She Don’t Wanna Be Saved

Clubbed Thumb Summer Works, The Wild Project, 2017 

 

Where the Sun Don’t Shine 

Commissioned by 48 Hours in Harlem, August 2013

 

The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi  

35th Samuel French OOB Theatre Festival, Theater Row, The Lion Theatre, August 2010 (Christopher Burris, Dir.)

PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

 

PLAYWRIGHT

 

PRODUCTIONS:

 

The Odds Are.. -Keen Teens, Keen Company, Theatre Row, 2024

 

Traditional - The Other Plays, TBTB, ART New York, March 2017

 

* Manhood -National Black Theatre, February 2017

 

When We Wake Up Dead - Brooklyn College New Workshop Theatre, March 2016

 

The Magic Inside - FETE, Abingdon Theater Company, March 2016

 

Are You Not Entertained ? - Bring a Weasel Festival, CSC September 2013

 

Where the Sun Don’t Shine - 48 hours in Harlem, HSA, August 2013

 

Within Untainted Wombs - The Fire This Time Festival, Kraine Theater, Feb. 2013

 

A Shadow with no Form - JACK, July 2012

 

The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi - Samuel French OOB Festival, Theatre Row, Aug. 2010

 

*workshop production 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTING.

 

A Freeky Introduction by Nsangou Njikam Atlantic Theater, May 2025

 

F*cking A by Suzan-Lori Parks Brooklyn College: Don Buchwald Theatre. 2022

 

blooms by a.k. payne Take Ten Virtual play festival, Theater Masters 2021

The Shrine: by Rudi Golben

The Only Thing… by Thaddeus McCants

Every Man’s Memorial by Maria Smith 

 

A and Bea by Tanya Everett BC Weasel Festival, The Public Theater, 2019

 

Rebellious Rhymes… by Nsangou Njikam Keen Teens Festival, Theatre Row, 2019

 

Maxine’s by Craig “Mums” Grant, Taproot Festival, The Wild Project, 2016 

 

“9” by Andre J. Smith, Taproot Festival, The Wild Project, 2016

 

A Military Habit by Aziza D. Barnes, The Fire This Time Festival, 2015 

 

Love, Redefined by Aziza D. Barnes, Poetic Theater, 2014 

 

Chalk by Amina Henry, Tiny Theater Festival, The Brick Theater, 2012 

 

Readings

 

A Freeky Introduction by Nsangou Njikam Atlantic Theater, Atlantic Stage 2, 2023

 

Gwenevere by Isaiah Reaves Iowa New Play Festival 2021

 

ReDefintion by Nsangou Njikam, JAG Fest, Briggs Opera House 2018

 

Breathe by Javon Johnson, BareNaked Reading Series, Barefoot Theatre, 2017

 

Blks by Aziza D. Barnes Fire This Time Festival 2016

 

ACTING – THEATRE 

 

Baba/Jamal Syncing Ink by Nsangou Njikam (Dir. Awoye Timpo) Apollo Theater, 2024

 

Reggie Gentrified by Levy Lee Simon. (Dir. Russell G. Jones) National Black Theatre, 2018 

 

Paul Coping Mechanism by Lori Minor. (Dir. Oneke Cummings) The Dramatists Guild, 2018

 

Jean Toomer The Art of Desire by Michael Cristofer. (Dir. Francisco Solorzano) Actors Studio, 2017 

 

Self Hands Up 7 Playwrights 7 Testaments- The Red Door Project, 2016 

 

 #     A Beautiful Day in November... by Kate Benson. (Dir. Sunday Evans) Dixon Place, 2014 

 

Tyson/Ali. Tyson vs Ali by Reid Farrington and Frank Boudreaux. (Dir. Reid Farrington) 3LD, 2014 

 

Ensemble Kharm Kharms by Eliza Bent. (Dir. Eliza Bent) The Bushwick Starr, 2012 

 

Marcus Beast: A Parable by J. Julian Christopher. (Dir. J. Julian Christopher) Cherry Lane, 2008 

 

Ferdinand/ Caliban The Tempest Molloy Repertory, 2008 

 

Bianca Taming of the Shrew Molloy Repertory, 2008

 

Pseudolus A Funny Thing Happened… Molloy Repertory, 2008 

 

Bridegroom Blood Wedding Molloy Repertory, 2007

 

Daniel The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged Molloy Repertory, 2007

 

Moon The Real Inspector Hound Molloy Repertory, 2007

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