Dean J. Seal is Artistic Director/Founder of Spirit in the House, which produces plays, storytelling, film showings and educational cable TV shows about matters spiritual and ethical. He is a produced playwright and theater and art critic about work that is spiritual. He was formerly the award-winning Executive Producer of the MN Fringe and the Bryant Lake Bowl Cabaret Theater, a comedy writer for A Prairie Home Companion, and 50% of Mr. Elk and Mr. Seal.