Dana is an Artist-In-Residence at Out of Hand Theater. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and Atlanta-based Working Title Playwrights. She has been a guest playwright and judge for the National Playwriting Program at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Region 8. She has also participated in playwriting workshops at the Robey Theatre Playwright's Lab in Los Angeles as well as the Page to Stage playwriting workshop with the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival. She is a native of Louisville, Kentucky with a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a Bachelors of Arts from Morehead State University. Dana has served as an online instructional facilitator and instructor in the Inspiration to Publication Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University Online, as well as an academic writing consultant in the eLearning industry.

Dana is the author of the poetry chapbook, In Between Faith. Her poetry has also appeared in the African American Review, Rogue Agent, and Blackberry: a magazine. Her most recent play, We the Village, was selected for Theatrical Outfit’s Made in Atlanta new play development program and the Unexpected Play Festival (2020), as well as Working Title Playwright’s First Light Series (2018). Some of her latest short works have been virtually presented by Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Billie Holiday Theatre, Out of Hand Theater, and Black Theatre Network. A combination of her produced plays, staged readings, and interdisciplinary art have been presented by Theatrical Outfit, Vanguard Repertory Company, Ain’t I a Woman Playfest, Blue Pearl Theatrics, National Black Theatre Festival, Fade to Black Play Festival, MoJo Fest, Coleman & Smith Artistic Company, and NAACP 10-Minute Play Festival. Some of her short play scripts are available at New Play Exchange Network.

Dana is currently developing a TV pilot dramedy. In 2019, a series of her poems from Black Body, Blue Note were adapted into a movement and poetry film by Vanguard Repertory Company. In 2017, Solomon's Porch, was a semi-finalist in the Nashville Film Festival's Screenwriting Competition. In 2014, Solomon's Porch was selected to be read in the SAG- AFTRA Atlanta Indie Screenwriter Showcase at the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts and Community Center. In 2013, Dana's short screenplay, ID, adapted from her play with the same title, was selected to be used as part of the curriculum in the Stage and Screenwriting course at Long Beach City College.

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