Dana is a multi-hyphenate creator and storyteller. She is a Chinese-American actor, writer, producer, and audiobook narrator. She has graced stage and screen in many markets (Chicago, SF, LA, San Diego, Las Vegas). Currently, based in Austin, TX, and is a successful commercial actor. As an audiobook narrator she is about to embark on recording her 11th audiobook. Dana has worked with the publishers Penguin Randomhouse, Harper Collins, Disney, and more!
Dana is in the midst of pitching a docu-series, Othered, that focuses on the experiences of First-Generation Americans, such as herself. As a producer, she focuses her creative work on featuring the stories of marginalized Americans. As an artist, Dana feels it’s important to give back and encourage fellow storytellers by offering private coaching sessions. She has extensive experience as a teaching artist, including having taught at San Diego Junior Theatre, Playwrights Project, ZACH Theatre, and more.
Right now can catch her in a commercial near you or on Amazon Prime in the Blumhouse feature Unhuman or on ExploreVeganATX (youtube) as the non-vegan cohost giving her epicurious take on all things vegan. Coming soon: Hypnotic, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Ben Affleck and Alice Braga.
A member of AEA and WIFT Austin, Dana is living up to her self-proclaimed “food monster” moniker by baking and feeding people while dancing in her kitchen to 90s and 2000s hip-hop and wrangling her Muggle husband.