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Dana Edell

Dana has over 10 years of experience as a teacher and leader in various arts and advocacy programs for underserved and/or incarcerated young women. She co-founded/directed Inside/Out Performing Arts, which focused on theater education and playmaking with girls affected by the juvenile justice system in San Francisco. She was the director of the SF Running Crew, a technical theater job training program for low-income youth at Brava! For Women in the Arts. She was a DreamYard theater artist-in-residence in public schools in the Bronx and has taught in public schools in Harlem and Lower Manhattan. She has spoken out at conferences internationally about the need for the arts in the lives and education of young women. Also a professional theater director/writer/designer/producer, Dana is the founder and director of 4 hard gulps theater company and has co-created numerous award-winning rock opera theater and video productions across the country. She has a BA with honors in classics (ancient Greek) from Brown University, an MFA in theater directing from Columbia and is currently working on her PhD in educational theater at NYU. She is the co-founder and executive director of viBe.