Tracy Dawson

Tracy Dawson is an award-winning actress, TV writer and author. Her book, Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do was published in 2022 by HarperCollins. BuzzFeed called it "An entertaining, astonishing collection...wholly inspiring," and actress/author Amber Tamblyn called it: "F*cking hilarious."

Tracy began her career as a mainstage performer at The Second City in Toronto. In 2009 her play, them & us, was produced by the renowned Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. That same year she won an emerging TV writer award at the Banff World Television Festival. Tracy was both a writer and lead actor on the Canadian sitcom, Call Me Fitz and won the Gemini Award and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work opposite Jason Priestley on that show. Tracy is also known by Disney fans as the titular monster 'Deimata' in the cult classic, Girl Vs. Monster.

Tracy has worked as a writer on both American and Canadian television series and she has sold and developed several of her own TV projects on both sides of the border.  She teaches screenwriting at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, has been a screenwriting mentor at the CineStory retreat in Idyllwild, and is a guest lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 2024 she presented a masterclass at the Luxembourg City Film Festival alongside actress Vicky Krieps. Tracy is thrilled to have been selected as the University of Calgary's Distinguished Canadian Writer-in-Residence for their 2025-26 academic year.

“An entertaining, astonishing collection celebrating the diverse trailblazers who disguised themselves as men...Let Me Be Frank is a witty, sometimes infuriating, wholly inspiring look at the lengths that women had to go to.” - Buzzfeed

“Tracy has such a gift for storytelling and making history leap off the page. Her book has a wit that suggests it was written by a man since everyone knows women aren't this funny.”—Kay Cannon

“I came up with Tracy as a fellow sketch comedian on the vomit-soaked stages of the Toronto comedy scene. And like the brilliant, resourceful, rule-breaking, damn-well-stubborn sisters in Let Me Be Frank, Tracy is someone who gets the job done, and gets it done well.”—Samantha Bee

“A smart, funny journey through history that introduces us to the rule breakers who made history worth traveling through. So well-written.”—Patton Oswalt

“Fucking hilarious.” - Amber Tamblyn

Let Me Be Frank is available now from HarperCollins. 

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