Dawn Cumberbatch is a screenwriter, producer, archivist, and researcher. She is currently Artistic Director of Project Namescapes, a visual narrative project established by The Black Consciousness Festival to examine the histories, names, stories and silences connected to the landscapes that we inhabit and interact with in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Dawn is also co-founder and managing director of Doux Doux Darling Productions Limited, a video and event production company and co-founder of The Caribbean Memory Project, a vernacular digital archive. She is also a founding member of the Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective, an initiative designed to teach chocolate-making and production to rural farmers from eleven cacao-producing countries in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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A fierce advocate for local content with a broad diasporic scope, Dawn has written, produced, and directed several documentaries in Trinidad and Tobago, and throughout the Caribbean. She was line producer on The Ghost of Hing King Estate and the award-winning short lm, Fish; production assistant and researcher on London-based Zenith Entertainment’s Our House/Our Home series for UKTV Style; associate producer for Marathon Films (Paris) for a series of children’s documentaries shot on location in Trinidad; and production assistant for Paris-based Dum Dum Films and Rituals Music.

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Early in her career, she worked as a Stage and Business Manager and Producer with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and as a Senior Communications Fellow at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. as part of the company’s Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship for theatre practitioners of colour.

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Dawn is a graduate (summa cum laude) of the College of Communications at Boston University, where she pursued a degree in lm and television, with an emphasis on screenwriting and production. Her script, Fresh Kills won first prize in the Gary Fleder/Scott Rosenberg Short Screenplay Competition at Boston University and she wrote the screen adaptation of historian Michael Anthony's seminal Caribbean novel, Green Days By The River.