Dawn’s career spans work in animation, VFX, live action feature, short form as well as live theatrical production. The Hollywood Reporter called her feature-producing debut Other Madnesses “a film that effectively gets under your skin”. She has stage-managed the legendary Blue Man Group at the Astor Place Theatre in New York City and contributed as a visual effects artist on Star Trek: Into Darkness, Pacific Rim, Iron Man 3 and Wolverine. Dawn earned her Master of Fine Arts in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts and her BFA in Production Management from DePaul University. She is especially proud to have been the Producer of the planetarium show Signs of Life playing in the Samuel Oschin Planetarium at Griffith Observatory, and is thrilled to now manage the Production Team at DNEG in Vancouver. Dawn is the Computer Animation Festival Director for SIGGRAPH 2025.