Dennis A. Allen II is from Hempstead, New York. His play The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi won the 35th annual Off-Off Broadway Samuel French Festival in 2010. 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 Career Writer’s Group. He has developed and produced plays with The Lark Play Development Center, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Fire This Time Festival, The Naked Expedition Project, 48 Hours in Harlem, and The New Black Fest. As a Director, Dennis has worked with The Fire This Time Festival, Keen Company, Poetic Theater Productions, The Brick Theater, JAG fest, and Playwrights Horizons Theater School. He teaches as an Adjunct Professor in the Theatre Departments at Montclair State University and Laguardia Community College and is the KCACTF (region 1) NPP Vice Chair. Dennis received his MFA from Mac Wellman’s Brooklyn College Playwriting program.
Dennis A. Allen II