Where Stanislavski Meets Fanon.
Kangalee Arts Ensemble, Inc.
Kangalee
Dennis Leroy Kangalee
"I've been addicted to the flight, the albatross reason and the eternal search for something I couldn't explain or give or create or destroy..."
A triple threat, Dennis Leroy Kangalee is a writer-director-actor best known for the 2002 cult classic film, As an Act of Protest. An outsider artists, he is an “actor’s actor” and even his approach to directing puts the performing artist above and beyond anything else.
He writes critical essays about revolutionary art, activism, Black cinema, and culture. He is the author of "Lying Meat" (poems), the 2011 performance-piece "Gentrified Minds" and several screenplays. A Juilliard alumnus, he is the creator of the "Visual Liberation" film pedagogy that relates certain political films to a tradition of American 'protest art'. When not directing or developing new work, he performs monologues and continues his investigations into both the Theater of the Absurd and the Black Arts Movement.
He teaches acting classes and provides private coaching.
His 2024 play "The Life & Death of Art" was the most revolutionary modern play workshopped in NYC in April of 2024.
