Tracy Dawson is the author of Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do, coming from Harper Design/HarperCollins in May 2022. Frank is her first book, and it was sold in a pre-emptive deal to HarperCollins in March 2020, a month when nothing much else happened in the world.
Tracy is also an award-winning actress and a TV writer who began her career on the alt-comedy stages of Toronto. She is an alum of the renowned Second City in Toronto and the Shaw Festival, the second largest repertory theatre in North America.
In 2009, Tracy won an emerging TV writer award at the Banff World Television Festival and was soon staffed as a writer (and later cast as a lead actor) on the Canadian comedy series, Call Me Fitz. Tracy went on to win the Gemini Award and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work opposite Jason Priestley on Fitz.
Tracy’s play, them & us, was produced in 2009 by the prestigious Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. Also in 2009 (it was a big year!) Tracy starred in the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Ben Elton musical The Boys in the Photograph at Toronto’s historic Royal Alexandra Theatre.
In 2014 Tracy worked as a writer on the TBS sitcom YOUR FAMILY OR MINE. She got to write jokes for Richard Dreyfuss and Ed Begley Jr. on that show. Ed called her a genius once. I’m just saying. Fans of Disney Channel Halloween movies know Tracy as the evil Deimata from Girl vs Monster (2012). Tracy has acted in numerous projects on stage and screen and has sold television projects in both the United States and Canada.
Tracy was born in Ottawa, Canada, and is currently based in Los Angeles where she lives with her life partner Isaac, who is a dog.