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Tracy Dawson is an actress, comedian and author of Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do (HarperCollins, 2022).

In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men and continuously broke the rules to gain access and opportunities denied them because they were women. BuzzFeed describes her debut book as "an entertaining, astonishing collection … wholly inspiring." Comedian Patton Oswalt calls it "a smart, funny journey … So well written."

Dawson is an award-winning actress and TV writer who began her career as a sketch comedian on the mainstage of The Second City in Toronto. In 2009, her play, Them & Us, was produced by the prestigious Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. That same year she won an emerging TV writer award at the Banff World Television Festival. She was a writer and lead actor on the Canadian sitcom, Call Me Fitz, and won both the Gemini Award and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work opposite Jason Priestley. Those awards are the Canadian versions of the Emmy and the Golden Globe. 

In 2014, she worked as a writer on the TBS sitcom, Your Family Or Mine, and wrote jokes for Richard Dreyfuss and Ed Begley Jr. She has sold several television projects in Canada and the U.S and is currently working on the screen adaptation of her first book while writing her second one. In addition, she's a script consultant and punch-up writer.

She was born in Ottawa, Canada, and currently lives in Los Angeles with her life partner Isaac, who is a dog.