Dana is the Creative Director for PhilanthroMedia. She is a 25-year-old screenwriter and director, and founder of the small independent production company Where’s My Sled? Productions. Dana graduated from Swarthmore College in 2006 with a double major in History and Film & Media Studies, and participated in the NYU: Tisch School of the Arts BBC program in London in 2004.
Dana takes an interdisciplinary approach to her client projects, combining production techniques with her work in theatre, history, and humor to discover how media can inspire those bored by traditional methods. Her passion is using media to educate those members of society who wouldn't ordinarily take the time to educate themselves.
“The divine spark in man is not reason after all, but something else, some kind of intuition or vision, perhaps like the moment of inspiration experienced by the artist.” -Tom Stoppard
Dana Variano, Creative Director
7/15/08
“I want to use the media we create to dupe people into learning -- through any method that we can imagine. I want to break open the trope that documentaries have to be boring, and inspire people to take action through our work.”
