{"id":14031,"date":"2020-12-01T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/ali-leroi\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T00:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:22:47","slug":"ali-leroi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/ali-leroi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali LeRoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10770 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_9417-225x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_9417-225x300-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_9417-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_9417-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_9417.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alileroi.camera\/\">Ali LeRoi<\/a> is an Award-winning writer\/director\/producer best known for his work on the critically&nbsp;acclaimed series, CW&rsquo;s &ldquo;Everybody Hates Chris&rdquo;, TBS &ldquo;Are We There Yet?&rdquo; and the breakout Hit for STARZ, &ldquo;Survivor&rsquo;s Remorse&rdquo;. Ali has five Emmy nominations as well as one win, he&rsquo;s a&nbsp;two-time winner and five-time nominee for NAACP Image Awards, as well as scoring several&nbsp;nominations from the Golden Globe, WGA, and others.&nbsp; Ali&rsquo;s major motion picture credits&nbsp;include producing and co-writing &ldquo;Head&nbsp;of State&rdquo; and &ldquo;Down to Earth,&rdquo; as well as producing cult-&nbsp;favorite, &ldquo;Pootie Tang.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">His feature film Directorial Debut &ldquo;The Obituary of Tunde Johnson&rdquo; premiered at The Toronto Film Festival and is slated for release in 2021.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The book mentioned in the interview is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Open-City-Novel-Teju-Cole\/dp\/0812980093\">Open City by Teju Cole<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10771\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.08-PM-1024x682-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.08-PM-1024x682-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.08-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.08-PM-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.08-PM-1536x1023.png 1536w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.08-PM-696x464.png 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.08-PM-1068x712.png 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.08-PM-630x420.png 630w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.08-PM.png 1861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10772\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-1024x769-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-1024x769-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-1536x1153.png 1536w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-265x198.png 265w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-696x523.png 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-1068x802.png 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM-559x420.png 559w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-01-at-6.52.19-PM.png 1662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali LeRoi is an Award-winning writer\/director\/producer best known for his work on the critically&nbsp;acclaimed series, CW&rsquo;s &ldquo;Everybody Hates Chris&rdquo;, TBS &ldquo;Are We There Yet?&rdquo; and the breakout Hit for STARZ, &ldquo;Survivor&rsquo;s Remorse&rdquo;. Ali has five Emmy nominations as well as one win, he&rsquo;s a&nbsp;two-time winner and five-time nominee for NAACP Image Awards, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14058,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions\/14058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}