BRANDON DEAN
ACTING
Brandon Dean (Tecklenburg) was born in Clearwater, Florida.
Graduated from Tarpon Springs High School (Tarpon Springs, Florida).
Started on the baseball team as an outfielder all four years and holds the record for games played in a season and career.
Started at Wide Receiver and Punt Returner on the High School football team and was selected on the All-Academic Football Team for Pinellas County.
School name was the 'Spongers', which was ranked as the worst high school nickname in the country.
Brandon was named Mr.
Sponger in his senior year and participated as a writer and editor for the high school newspaper the "Serif" and performed in on stage skits and lip sync contests.
Attended college at Barry University in Miami, Florida on a Baseball Scholarship and got a degree in Broadcast Communications and a Fine Arts Minor in Theatre.
First stage audition was for Demetrius and Lysander in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights' Dream, but was cast as Theseus.