Dawn Van de Schoot
- Actress
- Writer
Dawn van de Schoot is a critically acclaimed actress living and working in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Dawn has a Bachelor's degree in Drama from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre Studies from the University of Calgary. She has continued her studies with One Yellow Rabbit, Company of Rogues, Six Degrees audio and sound, the Upstart Program through AMPIA and most recently with the ProActors Lab with coach David Rotenberg.
Dawn has been the founder of three independent theatre companies (Really Nice Insomniacs, Rogues Theatre and Theatre Utopia) where she worked as an actor, coach, writer, director and producer until 2006. She has written over 20 stage plays and 4 screenplays. A practitioner of "Theatre of the Oppressed" techniques as defined by Augusto Boal, Dawn excels at new play creation with marginalized communities and continues to use performance creation techniques to develop community-based social practice art projects such as "Kitchen Feminism" - an exploration of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of women.
Dawn has performed in theatre productions since 1987, receiving critical acclaim as a dramatic actress in the production of "Three Tall women" by Edward Albee in 2001. Dawn wrote and starred in the one woman show "Put your Money where your mouth is" in 2004/2005 which was workshopped in Wageningen, the Netherlands before touring in Winnipeg as a part of FemFest and again in Calgary. Dawn is also an accomplished voice actor having narrated short stories for CBC radio as well as recording vo for audiobooks and e-learning videos.
Dawn began working in film in 1996 and has been proud to have such dynamic roles as Melanie Edwards in "Red Letter Day," (2019) Aunt Elizabeth in "Ice Blue" (2017) and "Jess" in Swift Current (2021).
Dawn has a Bachelor's degree in Drama from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre Studies from the University of Calgary. She has continued her studies with One Yellow Rabbit, Company of Rogues, Six Degrees audio and sound, the Upstart Program through AMPIA and most recently with the ProActors Lab with coach David Rotenberg.
Dawn has been the founder of three independent theatre companies (Really Nice Insomniacs, Rogues Theatre and Theatre Utopia) where she worked as an actor, coach, writer, director and producer until 2006. She has written over 20 stage plays and 4 screenplays. A practitioner of "Theatre of the Oppressed" techniques as defined by Augusto Boal, Dawn excels at new play creation with marginalized communities and continues to use performance creation techniques to develop community-based social practice art projects such as "Kitchen Feminism" - an exploration of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of women.
Dawn has performed in theatre productions since 1987, receiving critical acclaim as a dramatic actress in the production of "Three Tall women" by Edward Albee in 2001. Dawn wrote and starred in the one woman show "Put your Money where your mouth is" in 2004/2005 which was workshopped in Wageningen, the Netherlands before touring in Winnipeg as a part of FemFest and again in Calgary. Dawn is also an accomplished voice actor having narrated short stories for CBC radio as well as recording vo for audiobooks and e-learning videos.
Dawn began working in film in 1996 and has been proud to have such dynamic roles as Melanie Edwards in "Red Letter Day," (2019) Aunt Elizabeth in "Ice Blue" (2017) and "Jess" in Swift Current (2021).
