Biography

Dawn Comer Jefferson is an award-winning African-American writer/producer, author, and teaching artist. She has written and produced television dramas for broadcast and cable networks and written Emmy winning arts programming for PBS and the Los Angeles Music Center. Dawn was first nominated for an Emmy for writing the Fox animated film, Our Friend, Martin. Dawn has written and developed projects for CBS, Universal Television, Starz, DIC, WMK Productions/de Passe Jones Entertainment, Belisarius Productions, Tommy Lynch Productions, Foxxhole Productions, and Arcana Films among others.

Dawn is the co-author of the non-fiction parenting guide Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work, and Family, and the African American historical children’s fiction The Promise. Dawn’s essays have been featured alongside stories from authors including Alice Walker and Jill Nelson in the travel anthology Go Girl: The Black Woman’s Guide to Travel and Adventure, an O Magazine book pick, and its recently published sequel, Go Girl 2. Dawn co-wrote the book, Bessie Coleman: Life, Death, and Activism of an Aviatrix for release by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2026.

A graduate of the theatre program at Northwestern University, Dawn started her career in the Disney Writing Program. Dawn teaches screenwriting in the MFA Film and Television Writing program at Stephens College, Stanford DCI Writes, and the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen and Television at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
- IMDb mini biography by: Will Levine