Dana Joiner
Dana Joiner has been working in the entertainment industry as a writer, producer, assistant director and content creator for the past 15 years with a particular emphasis on female focused content. The Texas native got her start in LA just after moving from New York when she created and Executive Produced Facebook Live and Periscope's first and only live broadcast scripted comedy series. The offbeat, scripted farce, Houghton Heights, was the first of its kind allowing viewers to tweet and Instant Message during the show to alter the direction of the content in real-time and was also the project that led to meeting her writing partner. Dana is currently a co-creator along with fellow Southern native, Heidi-Marie Ferren. Their affinity for women's work in the twentieth century has led to scripted one-hour dramas such as the Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline Nashville Film Festival award winning series Woman Enough/Unsung; the Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline scripted series about the early women of country music that has been labeled, "the MADMEN of these women" and is currently being shopped. The writing team was recently brought in to develop and co-write the KEPS Mystery Series for television/streaming based off the optioned book series. The project has been well received and recently attached Tanya Tucker and Wynonna Judd as the amateur sleuth crime fighting duo. Dana and Heidi are currently developing two biopic features with all rights procured for the story of legendary female comedian, Minnie Pearl, "How-DEE:" Once an Oversight, Now a Trademark, and A Woman Before Her Time: The Jackie Shane Story, about the transgender pioneer of 1960's Soul Music and the first chart topping trans woman of color in rhythm & blues. In addition to Dana's work on Woman Enough, she has the rights to and is in development on their next one-hour drama, American Havoc, the provocative and untold story of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee amid depression era Vaudeville and the entertainment revolution that built America. As an author, the earliest draft of her soon to be published novel, an untitled historical fiction based off the untold story of the first flight attendants post WWII; before the "mile high club," about the 1940's darlings that originated the proverbial Playboy Bunny suit with wings, has already been fielding interest toward being optioned into a limited series. In front of the camera, Dana can be seen on HBO's Togetherness and ABC's American Crime and in her principal role as Natalie in the film 8 Winds opposite Robert Davi. Dana was recently slated to co-write Overton Film's Martin Luther King documentary based on the first MLK parade in East Texas and just consulted on the controversial feature based on the first University Production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America in the Bible Belt. Dana is a passionate supporter of the Scottish Rite Children's Hospital who operated on her for her Clubfoot (a birth defect from a parent's exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam) at the early age of 18 months. One of their many skilled surgeons is responsible for her walking today and being able to dance as a child. A debt of gratitude she feels she will forever owe and repays with every opportunity she gets.
Dana Joyce Schiller
Dana was raised in the small town of Reidsville, Georgia. She attended Middle Georgia College for a brief period but decided to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. She began working for the Georgia Department of Corrections in March of 1994 and continued until April of 2015. Dana remains in Georgia where she continues to be active in the growing film community. Dana, and her husband, Jason, have been married for 22 years and have two children, Mikayla and Maddox.
Dana Karvelas
Dana Karvelas is known for Deseo Deseo (2016), Los visitados (2020) and Estrellas solitarias (2015).
Dana Kippel
Dana Kippel was born in Queens, NY and adopted by an amazing family in Suffern, NY. As a child she excelled in gymnastics, creative writing, science and math as well as theatre at Rockland Center for the Arts. Dana had struggles during her childhood and teenage years and frequently writes about these experiences in her work. She aims to inspire other young women to recognize their own power and also to put a stop to bullying. Dana went on in her twenties to study mental health, philosophy, addiction, spirituality, unified physics and metaphysics. She also sold a ghost kitchen brand she created in her twenties to a bigger named company in Los Angeles, CA. Since moving to Los Angeles, CA in 2019, she has starred in various indie films, national commercials and wrote and co-directed a horror short titled "Want to Hear A Story" which won awards. She also was a finalist in the Future Drifter Short Films Screenwriting Contest for a short sci-fi screenplay she wrote. Dana directed her first feature a metaphysical sci-fi thriller Reflect in late 2021 . Her interests lie in grounded sci-fi, horror and metaphysical sci-fi. She writes to represent the female perspective. Her influences are the Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock, Sacred Geometry, Mythology, and the topics listed above that she has intensely studied. Her overall message is that we are all connected and sentient from a cell to a tree to a human and have all the answers we need inside of us. She craves open endings and wants to show the world a true strong woman is someone who is vulnerable, one who burrows in those dark places and scratches her way out of the other side victorious. She aims to inspire young women and men to come together as a community and develop true connection. Dana is a futurist at heart and is working on her trilogy of films that pulls from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. With her own virtual paintbrush: her first film Reflect, represents Inferno, her second film Inanna, represents Purgatorio and her third secret futuristic film will represent Paradiso.
Dana Koops
Dana Koops was born in Los Angeles, CA to teachers who were born and lived internationally. She is a Global BFA (film) student in the dual program at Emerson College and Paris College of Art. Dana began acting when she stepped onto the stage as a toddler in an Azusa Pacific University opera production of "Suor Angelica" (Puccini). She trained at Gary Spatz's - The Playground: A Young Actor's Conservatory, Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop, and the Groundlings School. Interested in other aspects of filmmaking, Dana wrote/acted in/and produced her first short film "Stuck" (2017) when she was in 9th grade. "Driver's Ed" (2019), a multiple award winner, was Dana's directorial debut. Dana's love of story and adventure enables versatility not only as an actress, but also as an engaging filmmaker. In her element when on set, both in front of and behind the camera, Dana speaks French and enjoys reading, rock climbing, traveling, and swing dancing.
Dana L. Wilson
Dana L. Wilson is an actress and producer, known for Dexter (2006), To the Bone (2017) and Major Crimes (2012).
Dana Langshaw
Dana is an American model and actress. She is the older sister of her identical twin, Grace. Collectively known as the Langshaw twins, Dana and Grace were born two minutes a part on April 21. The Langshaw twins are a mix of Cherokee Native American, Italian, English, Czechoslovakian and German. Dana along with her identical twin are experienced commercial, fashion and print models. They have modeled in New York City, Miami and Atlanta. They have walked the runway for shows during Miami Swim Week and New York Fashion Week. Dana and Grace have acted in commercials and film. The sister's have appeared on shows for Investigation Discovery, ABC, and on WWE Raw and Smackdown (USA and SyFy). They have also worked on feature films including, Fast and Furious 7, Criminal Activities, Barely Lethal and Mockingjay Part 1. Besides acting and modeling, Dana is a cheerleader for the NHL Columbus Blue Jackets. She loves fitness and has been a gymnast for over 8 years. Dana also loves playing guitar and writing songs for fun. Dana graduated two years early from The Ohio State University with a BA in Strategic Communications.
Dana Ledoux Miller
Dana Ledoux Miller is known for Moana 2 (2024), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Designated Survivor (2016).
Dana Lee
Dana Lee was born in a village outside of Guanzhou (Canton) China. His family immigrated to the U.S. when he was seven and settled in Houston, Texas. As one of a handful of Chinese-Americans living in segregated Houston, Dana was exposed to both the White and Black communities from an early age. His father had a grocery store in the fifth ward, a Black neighborhood, and their home was located in Denver Harbor, a poor White section of town. Growing up shy all of his childhood, Dana took acting classes at Stephen F. Austin High School to overcome it. He immediately fell in love with acting and eventually became an all-city actor. To this day, Dana has never forgotten what his high school acting coach, Mr. Jerry Long, told him: "A good actor can transcend race, ethnicity, and color." Immediately after graduating from high school, Dana made a beeline to Los Angeles. But, because of his parent's disapproval of acting, it was not until many years later that he went headlong into the "biz." In the intervening years, Dana joined the Marine Corps Reserve and got his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration. Dana credits Jerry Thorpe with giving him his entry into SAG with a role on "Kung Fu" and Stephen J. Cannell for giving him a career in TV, appearing in many of Cannell's shows. He is also grateful to Sylvester Stallone for the opportunity to work with him in "Rambo: First Blood, Part II." In addition to his prolific film and TV career, Dana has also been active on stage. He has performed at such prestigious venues as The Public Theatre in New York City, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and The Doolittle and The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. He has acted in classics by Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov and in modern plays by Miller, Albee, and Shepard. For many years, Dana was a major driving force at East-West Players, America's most renowned Asian-American theatre. Among his most memorable stage works was playing George to Nancy Kwan's Martha in The Singapore Repertory Theatre's production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and Dr. Rank to Shabana Azmi's Nora, in "Nora," Ingmar Bergman's translation/adaptation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House," also at SRT. Dana is a distinguished theatre director, too, having won many awards for directing. Dana is married to his college sweetheart, Michele. They have two beautiful daughters. Their eldest, Jennifer, is a physical therapist, and the youngest, Danielle is graduating with a Master's Degree in production design from AFI. In 2002, Dana won the Award of Excellence at the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival. He was also recognized for his acting achievements by the Chinese-American Society of Los Angeles.
Dana Lewis
Dana Lewis is known for Birdbath (2013), Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (2012) and Tristin and Izzy (2010).
