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A native Texan, Dana received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a graduate degree from Harvard before making the decision to return to her childhood passion of acting. She then studied at Stella Adler Conservatory in Los Angeles and Circle in the Square in New York and has been acting ever since in and around the New York area.
She has appeared off-Broadway and regionally at the John Houseman Theatre, Miranda Theatre, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Manhattan Class Company, Expanded Arts, Irish-American Theatre Company, New Jersey Repertory Company, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Studio City Players (Los Angeles), Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, and Shakespeare at Winedale (Austin). She was nominated “Best Featured Actress” -- New Jersey Theatre Season” by the Star-Ledger, and has received critical praise for her work on stage.
She has developed roles in many new works by playwrights Mike Folie, Gino DiIorio, Sandra Perlman, Joe Calarco, Mark Dunn, Russell Davis, Vladimir Zelevinski and Lee Blessing. Other favorite credits include Rosaline in Loves Labours Lost and Queen Isabel in Richard II at the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, Feste in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare at Winedale, and Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol, which toured throughout Germany.
Her several film credits consist of roles as wide ranging as a drug addict in the indie film, A Deadly Mix, to the angelic heroine, Corey Ten Boom, in True Angel Stories. Her short film, BUST, directed by Duncan Rogers and which features Dan Lauria (TV's The Wonder Years) marked her professional film debut as writer/producer/actor. 2005 also marked her debut as a stage director with the world premiere of Vincent Sessa's A Child's Guide to Innocence at the New Jersey Repertory Company.
Dana is currently at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as a member of their MFA-Professional Actor Training program.