Dana is an associate artist at Out of Hand Theater. Through Out of Hand Theater, Dana has been commissioned to create work for tailored audiences at Audible, BlackRock, Big Cities Health Coalition, The Arbor Company, South and Appalachian Creative Placemaking Summit, Emory University's Goizueta Business School, The Forum on Workplace Inclusion podcast, Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta, and Urban League of Greater Atlanta Young Professionals. She has also been commissioned by Horizon Theatre, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Dana's most recent play, The Line, was selected for development in Working Title Playwright's Ethel Woolson Lab (2024) and received a public staged reading at Theatrical Outfit. Her play, We the Village, was selected for Theatrical Outfit’s Made in Atlanta new play development program (2021), the Unexpected Play Festival (2020), and Working Title Playwright’s First Light Series (2018). Dana is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Dana is a Cave Canem fellow. She has been a featured poet and monologist at The Letters Festival, AJC Decatur Book Festival, the World Stage, Long Beach Job Corp, and additional venues throughout Los Angeles and Atlanta. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, In Between Faith. Her poetry has also appeared in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, African American Review, Rogue Agent, For Harriet and Blackberry: a magazine. Her poems can also be found in the following anthologies: Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Motown Poetry Revue, Boundaries & Borders: A Literary Exploration of Global Voices, Marked By Scorn Anthology, Hot Summer Nights: A Collection of Erotic Poetry & Prose, and Beyond Words: The Creative Voices of WriteGirl, an anthology where Dana served as associate editor. In 2019, a series of her poems from Black Body, Blue Note were adapted into a movement and poetry performance as well as a short film by Vanguard Repertory Company.

Dana is a lead instructor for the Rythmn & Revision workshop, a partnership between Theatrical Outfit and the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Atlanta that exposes youth to dramatic writing, poetry, and spoken word. She has served as an instructional facilitator in the Inspiration to Publication Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. Dana has also served as workshop facilitator for Hush Harbor Lab's Djali Playwriting Workshop for Black, Atlanta-based playwrights developing new plays. Additionally, she has served at WriteGirl, a nonprofit creative writing and mentorship organization.

Dana conducts creative writing workshops, works as a writing instructor, guest teacher, writing and ELA tutor, as well as serves as a writing consultant and book coach. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a Bachelors of Arts from Morehead State University.

Email dana@danastringer.com for artist statement, CV, booking, commissions, and collaborations.