Dana is a passionate actor, director, and educator raised on Bainbridge Island but a lover of Pittsburgh for the last seventeen years. Dana started her early career pursuing professional acting after graduating from Lewis and Clark College. She spent much of her twenties doing theater in Seattle and Chicago, where she joined the Actor’s Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. She then went on to the University of Iowa where she earned an MFA in Acting and participated in a three-year Arts fellowship.