Dorothy A. Atabong

Dorothy A. Atabong was born and raised in Cameroon, West Africa and educated in the USA and Canada. She obtained a BSc. in Biochemistry from Michigan before changing coats and moving on to graduate from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York with a degree in Dramatic arts. At 19 she published her novel The Princess of Kaya which she later adapted into a screenplay. She is a multiple award winning Actress, Writer-Director, Producer based in Toronto. Selected Actor screen credits - TV series Mayday (Discovery Channel), Coping (Theatrical release), The Line (TMN & Movie Central), and Degrassi: The Next Generation; Canon Camera commercial for the Newsweek Magazine, and PSAs for Stephen Lewis Foundation - help fight AIDS in Africa. Selected Theatre Credits: August Wilson Plays in New York Theatre in the Park, Volcano Theatre's, "Africa Trilogy" at the Toronto Luminato Arts Festival, The Overwhelming at The Canadian Stage Company. Her short film Sound Of Tears, screened at