Dana L Stringer

Dana L. Stringer is an Atlanta-based playwright, monologist, teaching artist, poet, and instructor with a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is an associate artist at Out of Hand Theater, which has afforded her writing commissions for tailored audiences at Lyft, Audible, BlackRock, Big Cities Health Coalition, Arbor Company, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta, Urban League of Greater Atlanta Young Professionals, and a host of other companies and organizations. Additional writing commissions include Horizon Theatre Company, Historic Oakland Foundation, True Colors Theatre, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Dana has been a guest artist and/or presenter at The Letters Festival, Moving Her Forward Summit (Embodied Narratives), Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (American College Theatre Festival), Essential Theatre’s Introduction to Playwriting, Theatrical Outfit’s Downtown Dialogues, and True Colors Theatre’s Next Gen Playwrights.

Her most recent play, Mother Machine, will have a public reading at Horizon Theatre Company (2026). Her play, The Line, was selected for development in the 2024 Ethel Woolson Lab with Working Title Playwrights, which culminated in a staged reading at The Balzer Theater. Her play, We the Village, was selected for Theatrical Outfit’s Made in Atlanta new play development program and the Unexpected Play Festival (2020), as well as Working Title Playwright’s First Light Reading Series (2018). A combination of her plays, public readings (live and virtual), monologues, and interdisciplinary art have been produced by Theatrical Outfit, The Billie Holiday Theatre, Black Theatre Network, Out of Hand Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Vanguard Repertory Company, Ain’t I a Woman Playfest, Blue Pearl Theatrics, National Black Theatre Festival, Fade to Black Play Festival, MoJo Fest, Coleman & Smith Artistic Company, and the NAACP 10-Minute Play Festival.

Dana is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of the poetry chapbook In Between Faith. Her poetry has also been published numerous anthologies and literary journals like Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, African American Review, Rogue Agent, Blackberry: a magazine, and For Harriett.