Dana Dajani

“...My natural instinct is to explore how to tell a story through character, through metaphor. I write for the stage. This is for words to be heard, not read off the page...”

“...I am a storyteller by nature. Under my mother’s guidance, I grew up immersed in books. Reading was my passion. Naturally, that translated to reading out loud. This, in turn, prepared me for theatre...”

“...It’s one thing for someone to applaud my performance, but what drives me, is when people come and share how they resonated with the message of my words...”

“...To create unique characters, I employed voices, gestures, and movement, so I could tell a story from a perspective other than my own...”

“...I, personally, was drawn to the rhythm and rhyme of spoken word poetry, and I decided to use my theatrical background to bring my poems to life on stage, a sort of “One Woman Show”...”