Ali LeRoi

Ali LeRoi is a true Renaissance Man. An Award winning writer/director/producer and Artist, Ali works in Film, Television, and Video, is an avid Photographer and plays the Bass on the side.

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PBS – A Conversation with Ali LeRoi

PBS - On Story Ali LeRoi has mastered comedy from all angles: he's worked as a stand-up comedian, writer, director, and television creator. LeRoi is best known for the television hits Everybody Hates Chris, which he co-created with Chris Rock, and Are We There Yet?,...

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Photography

His love of photography began with the photojournalism he admired in Life Magazine and further inspired by the familiar, yet slick, images of Ebony and Jet Magazine. From those early investigations, Ali found the inspiration to execute his own street photography in the visual vernacular of Blackness; Images centered on depictions of black people rapt in the grandeur of their humanity, beset with complex narratives, far-expanding familial ties and the latency of desire. Black men, women, and children fill his frame with their hopes and dreams and experiences that extend beyond an all too familiar framing of black life as one of monolithic struggle and a singular pain. His imagery offers representations of the variety of black experience, the black space, broken yet thriving, and a portrait of a people in search of their place to call home. His work can be described as a gesture, one that allows the viewer to witness a subject in a manner that might enable one to see as deeply into oneself.

Humanitas

Ali is currently the President of the prestigious  Humanitas Organization , devoted to highlighting those writings which promote human dignity, meaning and freedom 

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PBS – A Conversation with Ali LeRoi

PBS – A Conversation with Ali LeRoi

PBS - On Story Ali LeRoi has mastered comedy from all angles: he's worked as a stand-up comedian, writer, director, and television creator. LeRoi is best known for the television hits Everybody Hates Chris, which he co-created with Chris Rock, and Are We There Yet?,...

Biography

Ali LeRoi is an Award- winning writer/ director/ producer best known for his work on the critically acclaimed series, , CW’s “Everybody Hates Chris”, TBS “Are We There Yet?” and the breakout Hit for STARZ, “Survivor’s Remorse”. Ali has five Emmy nominations as well as one win, he’s a two time winner and five time nominee for NAACP Image Awards, as well as scoring several nominations from the Golden Globe, WGA, and others.   Ali’s major motion picture credits include producing and co-writing “Head of State” and “Down to Earth,” as well as producing cult-favorite, “Pootie Tang.”

Ali is an avid photographer, having exhibited his work in several gallery shows and in print, and recently staged his first solo photography show “Self Portrait”. He has also served on the Board of the Producer’s Guild of America, as well as holding the current chair as President of The Humanitas Prize, a non-profit organization that awards and promotes the craft of television and film writers. Originally from Chicago, Ali LeRoi currently is working on several projects under his CBS Deal and in Post-production on his Indie Feature Film Directorial Debut, “The Obituary of Tunde Johnson.”

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3 Arts

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