Dana is a 27-year-old screenwriter and director, and founder of where’s my sled? productions.  She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2006 with a double major in History and Film & Media Studies, and participated in NYU: Tisch School of the Arts BBC program in London in 2004. Currently, Dana is serving as Creative Director for dapperQ, and Online Content Manager/Producer at the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board.

While at Swarthmore, Dana took an interdisciplinary approach to her study of film, combining production methods with work in theatre and history to discover how media could be applied to different fields of study.  Her goal is to find a way to use media to educate those members of society who wouldn't ordinarily seek out certain information. Dana wants to make films (documentaries, dramas, historical fictions), that are entertaining and educational, in that they make the audience think about something new. Down with the floating-head, sleep-inducing documentary!

Dana’s documentary credits include: Mind at Large

Productions’ Crossing the Lines (2003), Disc Jockey Productions’ Warmothers: 2002 (2003), the BBC's Winston Churchill and his Art (2004), and Tweeter Productions’ RAPP: Family Portraits (2006) (National Winner of the National Extension Assoc. for Family and Consumer Sciences 2006 award). She is currently directing, producing, and editing a series of free-lance videos and powerpoints for Cornell University Cooperative Extension, an educational not-for-profit seeking increased governmental funds for their human development projects.

Dana has written, directed, and edited a number of fictional shorts, which include: Brighton Rocks Productions’ Trace Elements (2004), Tweeter Productions’ The Rock Pocket (2006), and Emily Conlon's Dot Zero (2007). Most recently, she directed and edited a 35-minute video through a SAG short film agreement, titled Triptych.

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