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...is an actress, director, and teacher of theatre. With The Moving Dock she has directed/devised Celestial Mechanics- or the Questionable Attraction of Entities, directed Savage/Love, and co-directed/adapted Galway Bay, Einstein’s Dreams, Ocean Sea, and The Quiltmaker’s Gift. As an actress she has performed with The Moving Dock in Galway Bay, Undercurrents, The Lydia Etudes,Ocean Sea, and Eleemosynary, with Alchymia Theatre in Flood, and numerous other roles including Ranyevskaya in Cherry Orchard, Hesione in Heartbreak House, Mae in Mud, and Margaret in Richard the Third.

Dawn is a Teacher of the Chekhov Technique, trained by the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). She was an actor in the filming of the documentary, Master Classes in the Michael Chekhov Technique, produced by the Michael Chekhov Association and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Her theatre investigations have led her on a path through the ideas of Viola Spolin, Robert Alexander, the movement studies of Rudolf Laban, the voice work of Linklater and Rodenburg, Viewpoints and, most importantly, Michael Chekhov.

Prior to devoting all her time to The Moving Dock, she was on the faculty of Roosevelt University's Theatre Conservatory for eleven years, where she taught Improvisation, Creative Process, Voice and Movement for the Actor, and Acting in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. She received a grant from the Kittredge Educational Trust to study in the Teacher Training Program of The Michael Chekhov Association.

She teaches the Michael Chekhov Technique in the Studio of The Moving Dock Theatre Company in Chicago, the Music Institute of Chicago, and around the country in guest workshops and residencies for colleges and theatre companies.