Career
He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1977 Delaney assumed the role of Research Director in the newly formed corporate office of Southern California. In 1978 he became the Vice-President of the Southern California corporation as well as one of its principle media liaisons and spokespersons.
On May 12, 1978 Delaney was arrested with Daniel Ellsberg and twelve others at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Production Facility in Golden, Colorado.
Their arrest for trespassing and civil disobedience resulted in a high profile trial before Judge Kim Goldberger, and national media coverage of the life-threatening environmental disaster caused by the radioactive waste and plutonium contamination. In the summer of 1978 he was a crewmember on ship M.V. Peacock, the last voyage to confront the largest whaling fleets in the world.
Delaney ‘s voice-overs are featured in the documentary ‘Voyage of the Peacock’ produced by Philosophy Caston and Charles Lloyd. He joined with Joyce Yarrow to co-write the story continuity and narrative script for the film.
Delaney became President of Southern California in 1979.
On October 14 of that year International was founded which set into motion the creation of United States of America. In 1980 Dennis Delaney was recruited by David McTaggart (Chairman of International) and several Trustees of the newly formed United States of America, and soon thereafter was chosen as the first National Administrative Director of United States of America. He was the United States representative on the Council of the International Organization. In 2011, Delaney founded Mortalfool Productions with the mission to create entertaining, cutting edge content for television, film, theatre, books, radio, and podcasts. Projects in development include "Saving Whales", a 12 episode, fictional, limited television series created and written by Delaney, and inspired by his experiences as a activist in the late 1970s.
• Hejira (2001)
• Animus (2003)
• Conscientious Objection (2007)
• Dead Cat Bounce (2015).
