About Dawn Bless

I am a playwright, ritualist, and cultural memory keeper. I write to reclaim, remember, and resurrect what the world tries to forget.

Born in Oak Park, Illinois—raised between the red clay of Alabama and the concrete rhythm of Chicago—I was shaped by movement, imagination, and sound. My first language was story. Before I knew stages, I drew worlds. Before I knew scripts, I wrote survival in songs, poems, and myth.

What began as creative refuge in a chaotic childhood became sacred practice. My artistry now lives at the intersection of Afrofuturism, history, and spiritual reckoning—where memory is not just honored but ritualized.

I am the visionary behind The American Music Cycle (The AMC), a seven-play theatrical series reclaiming the Black roots of America’s most celebrated music genres: Rock, Gospel, Country, Jazz, Hip-Hop, R&B, and House. These are not just musicals. They are sonic uprisings. Cultural altars. Rebellions made melodic.

My breakout work, She Rocks: The Fierce & Fearless Women Who Created Rock ‘n’ Roll, is an Afrofuturist folktale that resurrects the thunderous legacies of Black women like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Betty Davis, and Nina Simone—visionaries whose names deserve to be spoken in distortion and defiance. The piece is currently a finalist for Definition Theatre’s AMPLIFY SERIES. To learn more about the series, or purchase tickets to the series in July 2025, visit here.

Before the page, I lived on the stage—as a performer, a mentor, and a voice in the wilderness. I have led youth in praise, in protest, and in poetry. But the call was always the same: to tell the truth, dressed in music and fire.

This site is not just a portfolio—it’s a gateway. A glimpse into the myth, the music, and the making of an artist whose work exists to shift frequency.

You are welcome here. But bring your memory. Bring your imagination. And bring your ears.

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