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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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  1. ^ a b "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)
  2. ^ "Dawn Dumont - Slice of Life". CBC News. 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.
  3. ^ "Where the boys are … No, really where are they?". CBC News. 2005-05-04. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.
  4. ^ a b "Dawn Dumont". Rooftops Comedy. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.
  5. ^ a b "Famous American Indian New Yorkers Who Lived or Currently Reside in NYC". Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.
  6. ^ a b c d Nobody Cries at Bingo. Thistledown Press. 2011. ISBN 9781897235843.
  7. ^ "imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival". 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03.

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