Dawn Davis recently directed the narrative feature film, Patterns, an ensemble family drama shot in northern Indiana and produced by Forester Film. The film has been completed and is in festival submissions. This winter she will direct David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People on stage.

Dawn grew up in the Midwest, where she started performing in dinner theater at age nine and forced her younger sisters to star in original shows that she directed. She spent many years in Los Angeles working behind and in front of the camera and is now based in her ancestral home of Massachusetts.

She won Best Teleplay at the 2023 Lonely Seal Film Festival and was a Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Finalist/Official Selection for the same pilot. She is an IRNE nominated actor, an ISA semifinalist, and a produced playwright. She produced and acted in the short thriller, Harmony, which premiered at HollyShorts Film Festival.

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Dawn has directed a micro-budget feature and short films, regularly coaches actors to successful bookings, and is a prolific stage director. Tufts Daily called her touring production of The Seagull “beautiful, innovative and, at moments, even brilliant.” Her production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch was cited by The Boston Globe as “a Hedwig to flip your wig for -- a gender-bending triumph.”

Dawn is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Women in Film and Video New England.