About Dana N. Anderson
Dana is a Chicago-based performing artist, writer and producer. Her experience spans on-camera, stage, voiceover and dance.
She started storytelling at a young age, creating and tape-recording parodies of soap operas like “As the Stomach Turns” with her sister and cousins. In high school, prompted by an English teacher, Dana began writing short stories and poetry, participating in poetry slams. In April of her senior year, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks visited her high school and watched a slam. Brooks signed Dana’s poem in the school’s poetry publication “The Obvious Answer” with a note: “An audience is a bunch of ones!” and she took that advice to heart. Her passion for the arts remains alive and sharing her work an act she deems a necessity.
In early 2018 Dana wrote and performed her first theatre production, “Soul in Suburbia,” a short stage play about Chicagoland as seen through the lens of a black family settling in 1980s suburbia. Produced by Chicago’s Theatre for Social Change, Collaboraction, the play made such a buzz that she was invited to develop the short into a full- length show for the company’s 2019 season. Dana is dedicated to creating and performing in work that sparks dialogue and action for the betterment of society.
