Dominique is an actor, writer, director, producer. Her work explores people under pressure to say, act, feel a certain way — and what happens when they don’t. She gives voice to real, complicated people struggling to do their best at life.

 

SMALL TIME with Audrey Grace Marshall

Latest acting work:
Dominique plays a pivotal role in James Repici’s new film Somewhere Between Expectation and Reality. The cast includes Richard Edson (Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise). Repici previously directed the film adaptation of George Saunders’ short story Exhortation from the NY Times Best Seller Tenth of December.

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN EXPECTATION AND REALITY

The feature film Small Time is now streaming on Amazon Prime and iTunes. Dominique plays a heroin addict trying to do right by her daughter (Audrey Grace Marshall, The Fairly Oddparents, The Flight Attendant). Written and directed by Niav Conty. Executive produced by Emmy-winner and Oscar-nominee Oren Moverman.

 
 

In a variety of mediums, Dominique challenges assumptions about gender, sexuality, and all the ways we are supposed to be. To further this exploration, she founded the production company AND/OR PICTURES. It has produced award-winning narrative short films and a documentary web series on the human impact of health care in America. Her work is serious in intent, but full of humor and her warmly blunt, compassionate spirit.

WHITE WEDDING with Sullivan Jones

Select writing recognition: 
Semifinalist Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowship (top 50 of 7,000+ scripts); WINNER Missouri Film Office Scriptwriting Fellowship; two-time Nicholl Quarterfinalist; final round Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

 
 

Editorial work includes:
Conducting TEDWomen and TEDxWomen interviews; covering The Paley Center’s social media for Valenti Martin Media; blogging for the websites Name Candy and Baby Name Wizard (TIME’s top 50 websites); supporting the best-selling The Living World and Biology textbook series. Dominique recently took the cover photograph for the upcoming 11th edition of The Living World.

YOU AGAIN with Nathan Darrow

Dominique grew up in Missouri, the oldest of three sisters. She studied history at Carleton College (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), has lived in spots as varied as Morocco, France and Costa Rica, and now resides in New York. The parks of Olmsted & Vaux are near and dear to her, with Central (Manhattan), Prospect (Brooklyn) and Forest (St. Louis) vying for her “favorite.” She’s currently at work on a novel and a nonfiction book.

 
 

 “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
— Richard Avedon