Michael W. Dean

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Michael W. Dean (born 1964) is a filmmaker, writer, musician and podcaster who lives in Los Angeles, California. He was born in New York State.

Dean wrote the book $30 Film School, and writes for Make Magazine. He also wrote the books $30 Music School, $30 Writing School (ISBN 1-59200-171-8), as well as the novels Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women (ISBN 0-9705392-0-7) and The Simple Pleasures of a Complex Girl. He co-wrote the book Digital Music DIY Now! (along with Skip Frederiksen and Cliff Truesdell). He edited the book DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish. (ISBN 0-596-00848-1)

He has been interviewed on NPR, BBC radio, PBS, and featured on NBC, VH1, and in Variety Magazine. He has been invited many times to lecture at colleges, museums and youth centers around America and throughout Europe.

He was the singer with Warner Brothers recording artists, Bomb. They put out four albums, two EPs, a single, and toured the US and Europe. Michael was also the singer in the band Baby Opaque, with guitarist Todd Wilson and drummer Michael Berube

He also directed the movies D.I.Y. OR DIE: How To Survive as an Independent Artist and HUBERT SELBY JR: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow, and produced the DVD Living Through Steve Diet Goedde.