Desean Kevin Terry is an actor, director, and educator.  He is a  graduate of The Juilliard School. He is currently shooting The Morning Show, the new flagship series from Apple starring opposite Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and Steve Carell.  He is the Artistic Director of Collaborative Artists Bloc, a Los Angeles based theatre company dedicated to producing new works that promote social change. Television credits include Scorpion, Southland, Shameless, ER, Monk, Harry's Law, The Night Shift, Sleeper Cell, House, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS: Los Angeles and more. Film credits include Post Grad, God's Army, Somebody's Mother, States of Grace. Theatre works include Suzan Lori Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars, where he replaced Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Boston Court, and Les Blancs at Rogue Machine Theatre, for which he received the 2017 Ticket Holder and Stage Raw awards for Best Actor in a play. He has been twice nominated by the NAACP for his stage work and was privileged to work with Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams, and Blair Underwood on a Tony winning production The Trip to Bountiful. As a director, he helmed Behind the Mask: a compilation of plays from the Negro Ensemble Company, James Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie, George C Wolfe's The Colored Museum, Suzan Lori Parks' Imperciptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, and most recently, American Saga - Gunshot Medley: part 1 by Dionna Michelle Daniel.

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He is the founder of  The Last Acting Studio,  and was recently listed as one of the top 5 acting coaches in Hollywood by Beverly Hills magazine.