Where Stanislavski Meets Fanon.

Kangalee Arts Ensemble, Inc.

The Vision

“…Dennis Leroy Kangalee’s vision of a theater company is like a culmination of American Theater’s past 100 years. From Ira Aldridge to the Group Theater to the passionate agitprop of the Black Arts Movement and the The Living Theater. His dramatic works are chock-full of ideas, overwhelmingly so…but the best cocktail of the personal and political.”

— Kam Williams, Village Voice

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The KANGALEE ARTS ENSEMBLE, INC. is a 501-C3 BIPOC non-profit theater company devoted to the collision of radical politics, classical theater aesthetics, & the liberation of the actor. 

Inspired by the legacy of The Living Theater and the Black Arts Movement, it is led and organized by artists and activists who work hard to achieve that delicate balance in theater between high poetry, entertainment, agitprop, and the leap towards transcendence. Never forsaking one for the other. 

With their provocative 2024 drama, The Life & Death of Art, the group’s first original work which openly equated the repression of artists with the oppression against Blacks and Palestinians, experiences and ideas from corners of the arts and trenches of revolutionary activism were applied. Premiering in April 2024, the play exemplified the group’s aim of blending the personal with the political. And by doing this, galvanizing both the idea of the dramatic written word and the role of the performing artist.

For revolutions come - not just as thieves in the night - but on the backs of actors…

Support your living artists or else you will see no visions and receive no prophecies.