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Dawn Wilkinson is an award-winning filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. She is an alumnae of Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre and the University of Toronto. Most recently, Dawn served as the Director and Executive Producer for the upcoming Season 3 of Step Up for Lionsgate and Starz and directed 5 episodes of the season, including the season finale. Dawn is a trailblazer and the first Canadian black woman to break into dramatic series directing in Canada and since then has become a prolific television director in Hollywood. Dawn made the transition from indie filmmaker to TV director by winning the Director’s Guild of Canada’s Emerging Television Director award and then went on to direct DGC Award nominated episodes of Degrassi, Kim’s Convenience and Lock and Key. Since then, she has directed episodes of Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Truth Be Told, How To Get Away with Murder, The Mysterious Benedict Society, All American and All American: Homecoming, Riverdale, Why Women Kill, The Gifted, Empire, The Good Doctor, The Resident, Nashville, Greenleaf and many more. Most recently, at the 55th NAACP Image Awards Dawn won Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for her work on "Power Book 2: Ghost."