Dawn V. Eskridge

Dawn V. Eskridge is a theatre arts professional with nearly 30 years experience in arts education, arts administration, entertainment management, and theatrical production. From 2019-2021, she served as the Production Manager for the Southeast Emmy® Award-winning High School Musical Theatre Awards: The Shuler Hensley Awards, produced by the ArtsBridge Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Theatre Education from Florida A & M University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from Kennesaw State University. Dawn is currently a full-time instructor of Theatre and Communication Studies at Clark Atlanta University. At Clark, Dawn wrote a competitive proposal and was awarded $500,000 in federal funding to transition classroom space into a state-of-the-art black box theater. Staying connected to professional theatre, Dawn also serves as the Patron Services Manager at Synchronicity Theatre and regularly consults on arts projects. In 2025, she helped coordinate the national Woman of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) organization’s 2024 Arts Forum held at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Of special note, Dawn is the great-granddaughter of John Henry Adams Jr., an illustrator for The Crisis magazine from its founding in 1910 until the late 1920s. Mr. Adams’s work served as the inspiration for this event.