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David Dean Bottrell

David Dean Bottrell is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter best known for playing the creepy and homicidal “Lincoln Meyer” on 8 episodes of the ABC television series “Boston Legal.” Known for his quirky characterizations, he started his career in New York, working at such theatres as the Second Stage, the Public Theater, the Manhattan Punch Line and regionally at the Long Wharf Theatre and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. His television work includes guest starring roles on “Head of the Class,” “JAG,” “Caroline in the City,” “Mad About You,” “Dharma & Greg,” “Days of our Lives,” “Ugly Betty,” “Criminal Minds,” ““iCarly,” "Castle,” "Bones," “Harry's Law,” "NCIS," "Justified," and "Mad Men."He also co-wrote (with Jessie Jones) the off-Broadway play Dearly Departed, which he and Jones later adapted into a film version titled Kingdom Come, starring Whoopi Goldberg, LL Cool J and Jada Pinkett Smith, produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures.Bottrell blogs about his experiences in the entertainment industry for the Huffington Post and writes a monthly humor column for MetroSource Magazine. His short film, “Available Men” premiered in the 2006 HBO Comedy Festival and went on to win 17 awards on the film festival circuit. On stage, he was one of the original cast members of both the Los Angeles and New York companies of the long-running comedy revue, “Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues performed by an All-Male Company” in which he performed his critically acclaimed 6-minute rendition of the entire plot of Out of Africa.In the summer of 2011, Bottrell (who is openly gay) performed his comedic one-man show, “David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show” to sold out houses at the Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2012, his second one-man show, "David Dean Bottrell is Working" played a five week sold out run at the Acme Theatre in Hollywood. Bottrell performed in the July, 2012 edition of Don't Tell My Mother! (Live Storytelling), a monthly showcase in which actors, authors, screenwriters and comedians share true stories they would never want their mothers to know.Bottrell is one of the producers of Sci-Fest, the first annual Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival, held annually in May.