Dean has been on faculty at Columbia College, The Celebration Barn, the Second City Training Center, Aloft Circus Arts, and the Actor's Gymnasium. They have taught master classes at Boston University, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, University of Illinois in Chicago, Oberlin College, the Ohio State University, Lake Forest College, Brooklyn Art Haus, The Neo-Futurists, the Clown School, LACC and more. Dean was the Artistic Director of Chicago Physical Theater from 2009 to 2016.