Idgy Dean (aka Lindsay Sanwald) is a musical artist, creative producer, and spiritual teacher based in Brooklyn, NYC. She has devoted her life to writing, recording, and touring her mystical/queer/feminist one-woman psychedelic rock shows across the USA and abroad.
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She is presently developing new material while teaching meditation & comparative theology to private students and groups.
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NEXT COURSE
THE WAVES: MEDITATING WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF
May 27th to July 29th 2025
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Lindsay studied comparative literature at Sarah Lawrence College, served as a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina, and recently earned a Master of Divinity degree after three years of monastic study at Harvard Divinity School. She was selected as the 2022 Graduate Student Speaker for Harvard University’s 369th Commencement.
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Idgy Dean's latest record, A Chronicle of Lightning Bolts (April 2023), was her final Harvard Divinity thesis project: a one-woman mystical rock opera of songs and visions composed during pandemic times.
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In 2016, she was one of the 70 hand-picked artists from around the world to attend the Red Bull Music Academy in Montreal, where she was mentored by musical luminaries including Björk, Pauline Oliveros, Susan Rogers, Jam & Lewis, Deradoorian, tUnE-yArDs, Dev Hynes, and Matias Aguayo. She had her TV debut on The Chris Gethard Show and co-produced a track with Hip Hop legend Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC.