Dana Schwartz (she/her)
Director
DANA SCHWARTZ is an award winning Los Angeles theater artist. She has directed plays across the country, most recently the critically acclaimed “Tune In” at Theatre of NOTE and “here comes the night” at Moving Arts, as well as productions at The Road Theater, Topanga Arts Center, Lyric Hyperion, Fierce Backbone, Long Beach Shakespeare, and the Victory Theater. Her play “Meet the Maker” was in workshop with Circle X in Los Angeles. “The Bomb” will be produced in San Francisco in March. “@Playaz” was an O’Neill Finalist and had its World Premiere in 2021. “Early Birds” premiered in 2019. “Presto!”, an O’Neill Semi-Finalist, was developed with Workshop Theater New York, and was in the Hudson Valley Theater Festival. “The Grotto” was part of the Valdez Theater Conference in Alaska, “First Time” was in the Lanford Wilson New Play Festival, and “The April & Mr. Bigglesworth Super Special Funtime Show” was produced by Thrown Stone in Ct. She has also had plays at Morgan Wixon, Surfside Theater, Nomad Theatre, Parish Players, Eclectic Theater, Echo Theatre, Theatre of NOTE, LeftEdge, Sky Pilot, REDcat LA, Disney Hall, Segerstrom Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Curtis Theater and LACMA. As an actress she has performed around the world, most recently in “Paper Walls” at the Inkwell. Dana is the Program Director of the MADLab New Play Development Program at Moving Arts.
