
DeseaN K.
Terry
Actor, Director, Acting Coach


ABOUT Desean
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.

AWARDS
Stage Raw
LEADING MALE PERFORMANCE 2018
Desean Kevin Terry, Les Blancs, Rogue Machine Theatre
ENSEMBLE 2018
Les Blancs, Rogue Machine Theatre
Ticketholders LA
LEADING Male performance 2018
Desean Kevin Terry, les blancs, Rogue Machine THEATRE
Nominations
Stage Raw
Leading male performance 2018
Desean Kevin Terry, A streetcar named desire, Boston Court
Broadwayworld
LEAding male performance 2018
Desean Kevin Terry, Les Blancs, Rogue Machine Theatre
NAACP
supporting male performance 2013
Desean Kevin Terry, El Royale, Kirk Douglas theatre
Supporting Male Performance
Desean Kevin Terry, The Wiz, La Jolla Theatre











