Dean will appear as Barrett in Nathan Johnson's "The Dummies Guide to Murdering Your Husband" as part of Round the Bend Theatre's 2026 season.Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock, NY, Jun 14, 3pm Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, NY, Jun 15, 7pm ...
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....
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 ...