ABOUT DOMINIQUE

The goal:
Dominique’s work gives voice to real people struggling with real life: challenging assumptions about gender, about sexuality, and about all the ways we are supposed to live. To further this exploration, Dominique founded the production company AND/OR PICTURES. It has produced award-winning narrative short films and a documentary web series looking at health care in America.

Latest acting work:
The award-winning feature film Small Time released November 2021 on Amazon Prime and iTunes. Dominique plays a heroin addict trying and failing to do right by her daughter (Audrey Grace Marshall).

Select writing recognition: 
Semifinalist Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowship (top 50 out of 7,000+); WINNER Missouri Film Office Scriptwriting Fellowship; two-time Academy Nicholl Quarterfinalist; 2nd round Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

Editorial work includes: TEDWomen and TEDxWomen interviews; Valenti Martin Media; Baby Name Wizard (TIME’s top 50) and Name Candy; the best-selling The Living World and Biology textbooks.

Biography: Dominique grew up in Missouri, the oldest of three daughters. She studied history at Carleton College (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), has lived in places as varied as Morocco, France, Costa Rica, and now resides in Brooklyn, where she’s at work on a novel and a nonfiction book. A lover of her hometown of St. Louis and her New York home, the parks of Olmsted & Vaux are near and dear to her heart, with Central (Manhattan), Prospect (Brooklyn) and Forest (St. Louis) trading places as her “favorite.”