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....
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....
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. ...
It’s time to parody The Moth with The Muff! The Muff satirizes all the elements you see at a typical Moth show. You’ll see the storytelling types: The Crier, The Rambler, The First-Timer, The Stand-up Comedian, The Fake Newbie, The Survivor...
As part of the East to Edinburgh Festival at 59E59, Voice of Authority will do a preview run of the EdFringe version of the show, July 17-21, 2019. Currently working on a rewrite of the show with editing/writing direction from NYC comedy veteran Veronica Mosey, which...
Tribeca Film Institute has selected 14 scripted and documentary projects for the 16th annual Tribeca All Access program which amplifies stories from historically underrepresented voices. I play the role of Chad in this film directed by Isabel Sandoval, which is now a recipient of this prestigious...
Quoted from review by Shoshana Roberts. BOTTOM LINE: The witty and charming Dean Temple uses stand-up, singing, and other ways of storytelling to delve into his existential crisis of wanting to be a performer versus having a more conventional job. Voice of Authority, written and ...
My show, Voice of Authority (tickets»), is about getting into big trouble. The US Dept of Justice comes after me for $19 million. True story. So I’m doing a new, very short storytelling series I’m calling Big Trouble, where I ask you to tell us...
Voice of Authority will have five performances as part of FRIGID 2019 at the Kraine Theater on E. 4th St. in NYC. Thursday Feb 21st, 8:50pm Thursday Feb 28th, 5:30pm Tuesday March 5th, 7:10pm Friday March 8th, 5:10pm Saturday March 9th, 3:20pm ...
When you get to play an angel and a devil, that's a pretty good Christmas. Marie Hasenpflug's production of the Lux Soap radio play in LaGrangeville, New York, performed to two sold-out audiences and it was a delight to be part of it. I played...
Yes, if you like video games, then you can see me in this one. That might even be me in this picture. A lot of the horse footage will be modeled from the work I did on this project, not sure I should say more...
I'm very thrilled to join the cast of Isabel Sandoval's feature film Lingua Franca, playing the character of Chad. You might have seen Isabel's film Apparition, which showed at MoMA last year. Producers on the film include Oscar-winner Gigi Dement, and Grammy- and Tony-Award winner...
Voice of Authority will be part of the 2019 FRIGID NYC festival at Under St. Marks in February next year, with a minimum of five performances. Dates will post in events on this site and our Facebook page once they are set. In other super important...
Voice of Authority has been invited to do a 20 minute version of the show at StoryFest this year, curated by Harmon Leon. The performance will be at the PIT Underground on July 14 at 4pm, and other performers in this block include: Amanda Miller...