Three times awarded the distinguished MacDowell Colony Artists Fellowship and a winner of the National Repertory Theater Playwriting  award, Deacon-Wren's screenplays with co-writer Lupos Sobre-Vega include “Sign Language", “Sun Moon Stars", “January One" ,“I.D.", “Rock & Roll Radio” and "Two of Hearts."

He is the author of the stage plays “The New Bijou Soft Shoe," produced at Symphony Space, New York and the Odyssey Theater, Los Angeles (reviews) and “The Chair at the End of the Room," for which he won the National Repertory Theater award. He is co-author (with Timothy Constant) of the play “And Flights of Angels Sing Thee" and co-creator of two television series, “There Goes the Neighborhood” and “Street Time”.

He has directed over 70 productions in college, community, repertory and commercial theater including the North American stage premiere of "The Little Prince" based on the St. Exupery classic which played the outdoor amphitheatre at St. Andrews Benedictine Abbey in the California desert, “The Night of the Iguana", “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds", “The Caretaker", “Mother Earth” and “All the King’s Men."

Founding artistic director of the Summer Music Repertory where he directed three musicals, his productions of Shakespeare have been part of the Chapman, Utah, Oregon and New Jersey festivals.

Born in Cambridge (Galt), Ontario, Canada, he is a descendent of Sir Christopher Wren, the 17th century English architect, from whom he gets his pen name.

Represented as a playwrite by the legendary Audrey Wood and Helen Harvey in New York, and as a screenwriter by Ilse Lahn of the Paul Kohner Agency in Los Angeles, he is currently repped by Leroy Bobbitt of Bobbitt and Roberts in Los Angeles.

Deacon-Wren was Associate Artistic and Managing Director of South Coast Repertory where he directed Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party", “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder and “Feiffer's People", among others (reviews). He was founding Artistic Director of the experimental venue Open End Theater where his productions included “All the Lonely People", “What If” and “Adventures in a Paper Bag."

He was a radio DJ and news reporter, program director of a public television station, founding manager of the National Public Radio affiliate station in Orange County, California and director of the national radio poetry series "Earbook". His television directing credits include news, public affairs, documentaries, commercials, corporate and music videos and he wrote and directed the feature film "Bike Fever".

Deacon-Wren is currently heard as a voice over artist in broadcast and internet radio, commercials, documentaries and audiobooks and is a partner and CEO of  newbijou mediawerks, a film, video and audio production company in southern California.