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, The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu/MGM), 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.

As a Writer/Director, her 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, Eye of the Veil is just wrapping post-production and will soon hit the festival circuit.

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. Also in post-production is a proof of concept 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.