Dawn has had a magnetic pull towards the stage since the tender age of two. She participated in Summer Theater, Local Township Productions, which ultimately led her to her High School stage career. Af ...Show More
Dawn has had a magnetic pull towards the stage since the tender age of two. She participated in Summer Theater, Local Township Productions, which ultimately led her to her High School stage career. After graduating High School, Dawn was accepted to the world renowned Stella Adler Studio in New York City. She became certified in everything from Shakespeare to stage combat, as well as voice and speech, movement, scene study, script interpretation, on camera technique, industry profession, and improvisation. A few of her Stella stage debuts include Martini in the all female version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", playing an old Irish man as The Doctor in "The Cripple of Inishmaan", and won four lead roles as The Waitress, Kit, Shona, and Mrs. Kidd in Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls."Graduating the Stella Adler Conservatory in June 2009, she was then accepted to One on One Studios in NYC. Dawn has then since studied film with some of Hollywood's Top Casting Directors including Rick Pagano, Lisa Saltou, and Helen Geier. She has won rave reviews in LA for her work as a seriously disturbed serial killer, and she was even called out for the lead role opposite Gywneth Paltrow. Deciding to come back home to New York, she is now represented by Andreadis Talent Agency, American Talent Management, and Broadway Alley Commercial Talent Agency. Dawn is now an avid SAG- AFTRA member, and was been selected to be on last year's SAG-AFTRA Television Nominating Committee as an honorary Board Member for the 2013 SAG-AFTRA Awards! She was honored to have interviewed everyone from George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, and Christian Bale, just to name a few. She is gracious and hopes to continue to represent the board as an honorary member.Dawn has had minor, supporting, and lead roles for The Biography Channel, HBO, NBC, Columbia Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros., Discovery ID Network, Time Warner Channel, LandlineTV.com, and The Onion News Network. She also has many commercial, music video, New Media, and modeling credits to her name. Some Independent Feature Films include winning one of the supporting roles of portraying the real life individual Lucy in the true ghost story entitled "Please, Talk With Me", and starring as Hannah Fairfield (opposite Ryann Dunn from all of MTV's "Jackass" installments) in this Augusts' release of "The Bates Haunting'.Some past prime-time television roles include appearances on NBC's 30 Rock as The Toreanu Watch Shopper, the lead role of Rita Hayworth's friend, who died a mysteriously tragic death, on an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories on the Biography Channel (she recently co-starred as a young Sonja Henie in a previous season). She also won the lead role of "Summer" on Discovery ID's new series "Scorned: Love Kills." Dawn's portrayal of Summer was based on the true life story of Shannon Reinert and the Craig Lebinowitz murder, in which she received top notch reviews for her uncanny resemblance to the infamous temptress.Dawn's more mainstream work involve last year's theatrical release of "Excuse Me for Living" starring Christopher Lloyd, Jerry Stiller, and Wayne Knight. She worked opposite Daytime Emmy Award Winner Tom Pelphrey from CBS's Guiding Light and David A. Gregory of One Life to Live as the stunning twin, "Daisy". Ben Affleck HAND picked Dawn for the now Academy Award Winning movie "Argo" (Best Picture) as the only Female Space Trooper. The character is based on the real lead actress from a film in the 1970's, "Superbeast."Dawn has been chosen out of hundreds of thousands of girls to play the lead role of Wendy in the new series "Vision" directed by world renowned French cinematographer/ director Gerard Gentil! With a superbly talented cast, and opposite the sublimely talented Ms. Amanda Greer as "Rose", Dawn is also on the panel of writers for the new series. Shooting resides in 2015. In conjunction, she is also again teaming with Mr. Gentil for the challenging dual lead role of Daisy du Bois/ Aurora Singer, as well as writing and co-directing in the new film "Aeterna" which will be released in 2017.In her spare time, she is a professional acting teacher / director to children, teenagers, adults, and is also a Broadway director. She is a professional writer, director, and producer. Hide
