The search for dark matter holds considerable interest in the physics community. Any laboratory-based evidence of Beyond the Standard Model physics would begin to illuminate the dark sector. Many experiments have searched for such evidence, but so far it has proven elusive. For the nuclear physics community the concept of a low mass dark photon has garnered considerable attention. Of particular recent interest are the well-known g_{\mu}-2 anomaly and an excess observed in the decay of excited states of He-4, Be-8 and C-12, which could be explained by a 17 MeV/c² mass dark boson. The proposed DarkLight experiment would search for this potential low mass force carrier at the TRIUMF ARIEL accelerator in the 10-20 MeV/c² e⁺e^- invariant mass range. This talk will focus on the motivation, physics case, and experimental design of the DarkLight experiment.