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Dennis Leroy Kangalee

Dennis Leroy Kangalee

Dennis Leroy Kangalee

Born in 1976, from Queens, NY. Best known as the director of the cult classic “As an Act of Protest,” DLK was the first artist to ever induct a Black Theater Seminar at Juilliard and one of the youngest theater directors in the 1990s. Poet, performer, essayist, Protest art historian, radical media ecologist, he is an advocate for the independent and political artists working outside and underneath mainstream culture. He returns to the screen in Brian Alessandro’s “A Saintly Madness” which will be shot in the Fall of 2020.

 

Work by This Artist

By Dennis Leroy Kangalee

Morality is a creative endeavor.

The Operation story art
By Dennis Leroy Kangalee

Cold, clinical discomfort; a soul screams as it is split in two.

Endless Shards of Jazz For a Brutal World still
By Dennis Leroy Kangalee

With an atrocity ancient and a wound permanent.

Endless Shards of Jazz For a Brutal World still
By Dennis Leroy Kangalee, Nina Fleck

The defiant face of a spirit heavy.

Rooftop Scene from As An Act of Protest
By Dennis Leroy Kangalee

Incendiary, confrontational, and necessary. The excerpt from a feature film that presents a relevant and challenging moral struggle.

By Dennis Leroy Kangalee

Sound the dirge. A lament for our age.

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