DENNIS A. ALLEN II (Director) is a multi-hyphenate in the world of theatre. As a director he has had the pleasure to direct and develop new plays by NSangou Njikam, Aziza Barnes, Tanya Everett, a.k. payne, Thaddeus McCants, Rudi Goblen, Craig “Mums” Grant, Kemiyondo Coutinho, Maria Smith, Hayley Spivey, Keith Josef Adkins, and more. Allen also directed the Brooklyn College 2022 production of Fucking A by Suzan-Lori Parks. As a playwright, his play The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi won the 35th annual Off Off Broadway Samuel French Festival. He is the recipient of Atlantic Theater Company’s inaugural Launch Commission, Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writer’s Group, and National Black Theatre’s “I Am Soul” Playwright Residency. He also served as the National Playwriting Program Vice Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival region 1. An adjunct professor at LaGuardia Community College, Montclair State University, The New School, and is the Co-Program Director for the MFA Playwriting program at Brooklyn College. Dennis received his MFA from Brooklyn College’s Playwriting program.
