Alana Dietze is an LA-based director, actor, educator and new play enthusiast.
Alana Dietze is an LA-based director, actor and educator. She is a company member of the Echo Theater Company, where she has directed numerous award-winning productions including Crabs in a Bucket (2 LADCC Awards, World Premiere), Poor Clare (8 LADCC Awards including Production and Direction, World Premiere), The Wolves (LADCC Award for Ensemble), Dry Land (Ovation Award for Production - Intimate Theater), The Found Dog Ribbon Dance (Ovation nomination - Best Season) and A Small Fire (Ovation, LADCC + Stage Raw-nominated). Dry Land was subsequently remounted at the Kirk Douglas Theatre as part of Center Theater Group’s inaugural Block Party program (7 Ovation nominations including Direction and Production - Large Theater). Alana served as Literary Manager for the Echo from 2008-2018 and Associate Artistic Director from 2018-2023. She is also a member and the resident Casting Director for Public Assembly, a company whose mission is to reinvent community theater in Los Angeles. She frequently works with Public Assembly as both a director and performer and, through her participation, has contributed to the development of numerous pieces of never-before-seen theater. Alana also frequently directs for academic institutions including Occidental College (Poor Clare, Elevada), CSULB (Red Bike, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Dry Land), UCLA (a list of happenings at 1016 14th st, Still Harvey Still) and USC (Spices, I’ll Get You My Pretty),
Some of her recent and favorite work as an actor includes Dido of Idaho (LADCC nomination for Leading Performance, Echo), The Recital (Monkspace), Charlotte Stay Close (Ovation nomination for Ensemble, EST/LA), Gloria (Stage Raw Award - Comedy Ensemble, Echo), An Undivided Heart (Echo), Fugue (Echo), Everything Will Be Different (Ovation nominations for Leading Actress, Ensemble, Production, Echo), The Red Letter Plays (Illyrian Players), The Devil's Wife (Skylight), and The Hillary Game (Padua Playwrights).
Alana holds a B.A. in Theater from Occidental College. She is an alumna of Directors Lab West and of Dell’Arte International’s Physical Theater Intensive. She serves as a Faculty Lecturer in the theater departments at Occidental College and California State University, Long Beach.