Born and raised in Cameroon, Central Africa and educated in the USA and Canada,
Dorothy A. Atabong is an award winning Actor-Writer-Director-Producer, based in Toronto.

Her credits include TV series, Star Trek Starfleet Academy (Paramount+); The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu/MGM); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC/Netflix); Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (Theatrical release); The Line (TMN & Movie Central); Degrassi: The Next Generation; Christmas Casanova (Netflix); Bell Lets Talk: Suicide, National Commercial, and PSAs for Stephen Lewis Foundation – help fight AIDS in Africa. Selected Theatre Credits: The First Stone at Buddies in Bad Times / The Great Canadian Theatre Company, 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.

As a Writer/Director, her short film Eye of the Veil premiered at Out on Film Atlanta, won Best Film – Golden Sheaf Award at Yorkton Film Festival, Best Script at Hollywood Diversity Film Festival and screened in multiple festivals including Toronto Black Film Festival, ReelOut Queer Film Festival, Wicked Queer Boston’s LGBTQ Festival and Geelong Pride Film Festival in Australia. Her first short film Sound Of Tears, screened at over 45 film festivals worldwide. It garnered multiple awards and nominations including The Africa Movie Academy Award; Platinum Remi at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival; Court-métrage de fiction, Burundi, Best Film and Best Director Nominations for the Golden Sheaf Award at Yorkton Film Festival; Ousmane Sembene Award – Zanzibar International Film Festival and Best Film at The Pan African Film Festival in LA and Cannes. Film.

Dorothy is an alumna of the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) and directed the CBC’s critically acclaimed 21 Black Futures – Season 3 – YEn Ara Asaase Ni/This Is Our Own Native Land. She is the winner of the 2020 Cayle Chernin Award, and her feature script, Zenzile’s Journey is currently in development in partnership with Telefilm Canada. She was thrilled to workshop a proof of concept film as part of the Caribbean tales Incubator Studio Access Initiative. Dorothy is mentored by two-time Oscar nominated Director Atom Egoyan, and was selected for the 2022 Netflix/Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative. She is passionate about creating accurate and clear representations of the experiences of three-dimensional black women in stories both tragic and glorifying.