Evans was born in Toledo, Ohio to a Polish-American father, David Ławniczak (d. 2001), who was deaf, and Irish-American mother, Pam Ryan.

[8] Dom originally attended Bowling Green State University while still in high school.

[9] In 2018, Dominick was featured in the book American Hate: Survivors Speak Out by community activist and professor Arjun Singh Sethi.

His chapter explores an experience in high school where he was tortured by classmates as a part of a senior prank when he was a sophomore along with his fear of being outed publicly in his neighborhood.

Inamorata is about a lesbian couple in the 1960s, while Overture is about two queer wheelchair users who meet in a nursing home.

[20][17][21][22][23][24] They have made it a tenet of activism, speaking on the topic regularly, including at Lights, Camera, Access!

2.0 at New York University and John Jay College in July 2015[17][25][26] and mentoring disabled media, film, and communication students at the White House in November 2016 via the video robot ALF.

They also hosted the panel "Crip Culture and the Media – Perceptions of Disability in Film and Television" at New York Comic Con in 2015.

[36][37] Dominick previously worked at the Center for Disability Rights in New York as a media and entertainment advocate.

Dominick has started consulting on scripts for studios such as Lionsgate and shows airing on networks like Netflix.

Evans was diagnosed with a degenerative neuromuscular disorder spinal muscular atrophy at age 4,[11] and has had to use a wheelchair full-time since 1997.