Dawn is a bi-coastal actor, singer, and writer. She has been seen on Broadway, off-Broadway, regionally, on film and television, and has toured as a singer/songwriter internationally. After an acclaimed run as Mrs. Van Buren in Arizona Theatre Company’s production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning play Intimate Apparel directed by Oz Scott, she immediately began filming Law and Order. She can now be seen off-Broadway in Winesday, directed by Jamibeth Margolis. Originally from the wilderness of Altadena California, she grew up surfing, hiking, and belting out Judy Garland classics with her brother Ryan at the piano. She then migrated to NYC to study Musical Theatre and Shakespeare at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and never looked back. Selected credits include Broadway: 1776 (standby Thomas Jefferson, Col. Thomas McKean, John Dickinson, *performed*); Wicked (Nessarose); Sting's The Last Ship (originated the role of Young Meg). National Tour: 1776 (Col. Thomas McKean u/s Thomas Jefferson, John Dickinson *performed*); Les Miserables (Factory Girl/Eponine u/s). off-Broadway/Regional: Dogfight (second stage, original company); Music in the Air, NY City Center Encores!; Love’s Labour’s Lost, 37 Arts); SISTAS: the musical, Actors Temple; F#%king Up Everything/Brooklyn Crush; several more productions of Les Miserables (Eponine); The Master Class, Long Beach Playhouse. Film: The Train (opposite Eli Wallach); Save The Date. TV: Law and Order; Every Other Sunday (Amazon); and the forthcoming pilot Jumping Beans: Let's Be Friends. She has a new musical, Hiraeth, in development alongside Addi McDaniel. She also writes and performs with her brother Ryan Cantwell (musical director/conductor Broadway revival of 1776). Their music can be found here. She is on faculty at Marymount Manhattan College. She specializes in sad contralto songs, and accompanying herself on her favorite Folk, Irish, and Bluegrass tunes on the Guitar, Ukulele, or Piano. She is a huge fan of the Oxford comma and appreciates when it is used. Follow her at Instagram @dawasong and FB @dawncantwell for news and updates!