Dean's pilot screenplay is one of three finalists in the TV Drama category (1700 total submissions). He has been named to the Raindance Discovery List 2026 and will be in London June 18-28. ...
Be Safe I Love You is an original music theater piece based on the novel by Cara Hoffman, with book by Darrah Cloud and music and lyrics by Stephanie Salzman. The story follows Lauren Clay, a soldier who has returned unexpectedly to her upstate New...
Dean's satirical pilot screenplay is one of 8 TV Drama screenplays selected to be quarterfinalists by this prestigious festival. Dean is (I am) very excited to have been selected. ...
Dean's short satire "The Fifth Horseperson" received a full production at BarnsideLive in Accord, NY, alongside his fellow Howl Playrights Martina Deignan and Dwight Watson. ...
Dean's new play "Apocollapse!" will have a workshop and reading as part of the Ukrainian Cultural Festival in NYC in October. ...
Sep 6, 2025, 4pm Written by Dyan Wapnick and directed by Robert Lyons. Dean has joined the cast for this reading. ...
The latest installment of the Fertile Ground film and speaker series that I curate for the Ukrainian Institute of America invited senior producer Daniel Lombroso of the The New Yorker to talk about the films of documentary-maker Nadia Parfan. We had a full house, they...
My follow up film to "Everyone Has the Right" has been released, "We Dare Not Fail." It's the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, created with illustrator Julian Dwyer....
https://vimeo.com/780889266 Тhe project of ProEnglishTheatre of Ukraine created with much love and admiration to Armed Forces of Ukraine! text: Yurii Hudymenkovoice and translation: Dean Temple (USA)video editing: Anton Dmytruk (UKR)concept: Alex Borovenskiy (UKR) ...
I haven't mentioned in this blog that I wrote, animated, and directed a short film for the FDR Presidential Library. That film has been named a Semi-Finalist for the Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival, an Oscar-qualifying festival....
https://youtu.be/5Ow-x_ZMj0Y Last month, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin released his new country album "These Blazing Fingers." This month we take you behind the scenes of his music video shoot with CMT-Award winning director Wes Edwards. Featuring US Treasury spokesperson and former Fox News Commentator Monica Crowley. This video...
https://youtu.be/GKPHiihlxQo Gotta keep busy during lock down, so I dragged Alex into shooting a comedy sketch, and my friend Theresa helped virtually. I don't do impressions, so I can't say my Mnuchin is spot on, but my Mark Meadows is so uncanny it's freaking me out. ...
When I’m a little kid I just want to tell funny stories like my Uncle Andy. He’s the one in the middle of the picture — below my mom and above Aunt Mika — with his tongue out. You know someone like him. The whole space brightens when he walks...
(Live on the stage of Theater 3 at Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh, image by Chris Scott.) Let me tell you about Suicide Wednesday. As prepared as I was going to Edinburgh Fringe, I did not know about Suicide Wednesday, and it’s important to share what I...
The Isabel Sandoval film Lingua Franca (starring me, well...
Isabel Sandoval's film Lingua Franca, about a transgender woman under threat of deportation, is one of 11 films (out of 900 submitted) selected for this year's Venice Film Festival. I play Chad in this film. I'm a little bit excited about this, here's the article...
Killy Dwyer invited me onto her awesome radio show Mock-U-Mental (okay, maybe I prompted the invite). I got to share the two hours with the funny and talented T-Spoon, aka Katie Haller. We told stories, we sang songs, I ran out early to catch my...
https://www.wamc.org/post/inaugural-phoenicia-fringe-festival-begins-july-5 I'm on talking Voice of Authority and what possessed me to take a show to EdFringe, along with Michael Koegel of the Phoenicia Playhouse and Doug Motel from the show Mind Salad. ...
As I rewrite Voice of Authority for its Edinburgh run, I’ve had to cut some of my favorite Zachary stories so I’m sharing them here. Zachary was my mentor, a Balanchine dancer, and the choreographer of the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. He’s also a character...
https://youtu.be/9P3KkiyVbHw In this episode, Mary can compete with me when it come to getting in big trouble. Her story is about heroin dealing at age 13. All I did that year was set a toilet on fire. I'll tell that story another time. Mary Goggin is...