Dana Wieluns
Managing Director, Associate Artistic Director, Performer, Choreographer, Movement Coach
An original founding member of Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble, Dana has contributed to nearly every production since the company’s inception, either as a performer, movement coach/choreographer, mask performance coach or assistant director. Most recently, she starred in Kabara Sol, creating multiple characters through use of masks and stylized movement.Other performance highlights include: Ninshaba, Hammergirl, Twilight World, A Cult of Isis, Winterquest, Maria Morevna and Salamanticus (which she also choreographed).
As Movement Coach and Choreographer, Dana leads workshops drawing upon Neutral and Character Mask techniques, Laban’s Effort-Actions, Corporeal Mime and Clowning to facilitate the discovery of character, distinctive movement styles and unique gestural languages. She served as Movement Coach and Assistant Director for the critically acclaimed productions of Aquitania and Red Thread, and The Last Days of Tarquinz (in which she also performed), and directed Journal of the Plague Year.
Other work includes Padua Playwrights Productions’ world premieres of the Murray Mednick plays Joe and Betty and The Gary Plays: Gary’s Walk, and a workshop production of Clown Show for Bruno Schulz. A member of the dance-theatre ensemble Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Dana has toured in the original works Lovesickness, Grand Hope Flower, and Two Views: An Urban Ocean Has 29 Eyes. She has also appeared in multiple projects with Los Angeles-based Sharon’s Farm and Oxblood Theatre Company.
Dana is a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, and holds a BA in English Literature with a Certificate in Theatre and Dance from Princeton University. She is in the process of completing her certification as a Registered Yoga Instructor.
Dana and Stephen Legawiec married in October 2006 and welcomed a baby daughter in October 2007.