User:Geo Swan/userified/Dawn Dumont

infobox writer Dawn Dumont is a lawyer, playwright and stand-up comedian. She grew up on the Okanese First Nation, in Sasketchewan.

Three of Dumont's plays: The Red Moon (Love Medicine); Visiting Elliot; and The Trickster vs. Jesus Christ, were broadcast on CBC Radio. An additional play Nicimis (Little Brother) was workshopped at an Aboriginal dance festival in Toronto in 2011.

Dumont has performed as a comic in Edmonton, Toronto and New York City. When in New York Dumont appeared on "One Life to Live".

In 2011 Dumont published Nobody cries at Bingo, a book about a young girl growing up on the Okanese First Nation.

In 2011 Dumont was both writing for the Edmonton Journal and working on an animated series on the Aboriginal People's Television Network entitled By the Rapids -- as a story editor.