D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

Michael Wareham Dean is a filmmaker, novelist, non-fiction author, tech writer, musician and podcaster who lives in Casper, Wyoming. Dean was schooled until the seventh grade at Westfield Academy and Central School, and was then sent off to all-boys boarding school Church Farm School in Paoli,... Pennsylvania. Dean summered from 1969-1983 in Chautauqua Institution. He skipped 12th grade and went to Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York along with members of 10,000 Maniacs, failing out during his second year, in 1983. He received a high-school diploma from Westfield Academy and Central School from attending Jamestown Community College. Dean lived in Washington DC in 1983-1984. He was homeless for the first half of that time, living in an abandoned factory in Georgetown. He lived in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1984–1986; San Francisco from 1986–2001; Los Angeles in 2001; Agoura Hills, CA in Southern California from 2006 to 2009, and moved to Casper, Wyoming in 2009. Dean married paralegal, podcaster and author Debra Jean Dean in 2006. Michael W.
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