Tam Dean Burn's theatrical roles include being the narrator of the 2009 play Year of the Horse, about artist Harry Horse, Irvine Welsh's Headspace in 1997, and Captain Edgar in August Strindberg's Dance of Death at the Citizens Theatre (founded in 1943 by dramatist and screenwriter James Bridie), Glasgow.
His theatrical roles include being the narrator of the 2009 play Year of the Horse, about artist Harry Horse. He starred on stage in Irvine Welsh's Headspace, in 1997. In 2016 he played Captain Edgar in August Strindberg's Dance of Death at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. The Citizens' Theatre repertory was founded in 1943 by dramatist and screenwriter James Bridie, author of some 40 plays presented in Britain and overseas, art gallery director Tom Honeyman, cinema impresario George Singleton, known by many as "Mr Cosmo", whose headquarter cinema continues today as the Glasgow Film Theatre, and Paul Vincent Carroll, whose plays were first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (founder W.B.Yeats) and later on Broadway, winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle award for Shadow and Substance (1938) and The White Steed (1939). 
