Dan Klores

Daniel A. Klores (born December 1949) is American film producer, philanthropist, and the founder and chairman of public relations firm DKC (company).

Early life Raised in Brooklyn, New York. Klores attended NYC public schools. The oldest of two boys, Dan was the first high school graduate in his family. His father Al, a veteran of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, sold pots and pans door-to-door in the borough. and a longtime Member of the Board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

His next project was founding a charter high school in the Bronx for hundreds of children of color.

Klores has written three off-Broadway plays, two books, newspaper and magazine columns, essays and articles published in the New York Times, New York Post, Esquire, Southern Exposure, Daily News, The Undefeated, Grantland, Tablet, and The Ringer. He received a Peabody Award and the Independent Spirit Award for best director of the year.

Basketball and Activism In 2014, Klores created his first non-profit for inner city children, these, ages seven through 17, ‘the RENS,’ named after the 1930’s and 40’s all-Black basketball team. Ninety nine percent of its 17 year-old graduates have received full scholarships and or critical financial aid from universities across the nation including: Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, Stanford, North Carolina, Wesleyan, Tufts, West Point, and Notre Dame.

In 2009, President Barack Obama hosted some of the organization’s young people to acknowledge the team’s first-of-its-kind nationwide orange emblem program against gun violence.

Personal life He has three sons, Jake, Sam and Luke

Filmography A filmography of Klores's work as director and writer includes:

2003: The Boys of Second Street Park - Showtime

2005: Viva Baseball - Spike TV

2007: Crazy Love - Magnolia Studios

2008: Black Magic – ESPN, (two parts over four hours)

2010: Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs the New York Knicks - ESPN

2018: Basketball: a Love Story – ESPN (a 10-part series spanning 20 hours)

Theater work His off-Broadway work as a writer include:

2003: Myrtle Beach at the Duke Theatre starring Yul Vazquez and David Deblinger

2006: Little Doc at the Rattlestick Playhouse, starring Adam Driver

2009: The Wood at Rattlestick, directed by David Bar Katz, about the life of the Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist, Mike MacAlary