User:Geo Swan/userified/Dawn Dumont
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{{[[Template: infobox writer | infobox writer ]]}} Dawn Dumont is a lawyer, playwright and stand-up comedian.[1][2][3][4][5][6] 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.[1][7] An additional play Nicimis (Little Brother) was workshopped at an Aboriginal dance festival in Toronto in 2011.[6]
Dumont has performed as a comic in Edmonton, Toronto and New York City.[4] When in New York Dumont appeared on "One Life to Live".[5]
In 2011 Dumont published Nobody cries at Bingo, a book about a young girl growing up on the Okanese First Nation.[6]
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.[6]
References
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"Celebrate: A National Aboriginal Day Special bios". CBC News. 2009-06. Archived from the original on 2009-12-02.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Dawn Dumont - Slice of Life". CBC News. 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.
- ^ "Where the boys are … No, really where are they?". CBC News. 2005-05-04. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.
- ^ a b "Dawn Dumont". Rooftops Comedy. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.
- ^ a b "Famous American Indian New Yorkers Who Lived or Currently Reside in NYC". Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.
- ^ a b c d Nobody Cries at Bingo. Thistledown Press. 2011. ISBN 9781897235843.
- ^ "imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival". 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.
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