While a child, Dean would indulge himself in old radio theater albums, where the "theater of the mind" held sway, and the power of voice acting made a deep impression. The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, Fibber McGee and Molly, and many other old radio shows competed for Dean's attention with the classic TV cartoon voices of Paul Frees, Stan Freberg, Paul Winchell, Daws Butler, Gary Owens, and Mel Blanc. In the following years, Dean took pleasure in reading MAD Magazine movie satires out loud into his 3? reel-to-reel tape recorder, using different voices for each character. After four years of high school Drama and two years of community theater doing Brecht, Coward, Inge, Wilde, and Shakespeare, Dean joined the US Air Force, where he entered Slavic Language Studies in order to work for the National Security Agency, both stateside and in Southern Italy. While in Italy, he had his own radio show on the base station. Later, Dean was asked to become a member of the looping group Visual Voices with Disney voiceover legend Ginny Tyler, with whom he worked as a VO and ADR artist on over 10 films. Now, he is enjoying his new career as a professional voiceover artist (www.deantmoodyvoice.com). Currently, as a 4th-grade teacher, Dean has many opportunities to use his skills as a storyteller to engage a most highly demanding audience: a room of 30 nine-year-old kids (as opposed to 39-year-old kids).
He can recently be heard as Mayor Cole in "FABLES Radio: Legend in Exile," in STATIC episodes "Stormin' Norman" and "Flatline," and has been a member of American Radio Theater since 2016.
