About Dana…

Dana (She/Her) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and theater critic based in Los Angeles, CA. She teaches a movement-based approach to the creative process, intuitively blending yoga, meditation, expressive action and imagination-based practices.

She serves as a mentor, most recently through the Z. Clark Branson/ Stage Raw Equity and Inclusion Initiative for Young Journalists in partnership with the Grow Program at Wallis Center for the Performing Arts. She’s worked extensively with Stella Adler Studio’s Outreach Program, co-facilitating acting classes in detention centers throughout New York City and Los Angeles County. Dana is the Program Manager for Music for the Future; a music composition course presented by non-profit organization Project: Music Heals Us in collaboration with Juilliard Extension bringing string quartets and music composition courses into jails and prisons in the state of California.

Selected performance credits include: Rocket to the Moon (Harold Clurman Lab Theatre), Still Dance the Stars (Chicago Dramatists/New Light Theater Project), La bohème (LA Opera), Hamlet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), A Phrasal, Likewise Me (Third Culture Theatre). Selected directing credits include: An Iliad (Pendragon Theatre), Men on Boats (Stella Adler Art of Acting Studio), The Glass Menagerie (Forestburgh Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Light Theatre Project). She starred in the short film The Dinner Game which recently premiered at the Toronto International Women Film Festival.

She’s a member of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and a regular contributor to online Theatre Journal Stage Raw. She’s a proud member of SAG/AFTRA and has an MFA in Performance from University of Nevada, Las Vegas.