NEEDY LOVER IS Jonah + Kallan + Hanna + Zoe + Emma
Kallan Dana is a is a writer originally from Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University. Her plays include RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR (2023 O’Neill NPC Finalist, 2023 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist, 2024 Fault Line Theater Irons in the Fire Semifinalist), LOBSTER (2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Finalist) Lying (2022 Princess Grace Award Semifinalist), Love Story (2022 Bramble Theater Unfinished Works Festival Winner), The Great Hunger (The Tank), and Playdate (Dixon Place, funded by Jerome Foundation Grant). She is a member of the 2023-2024 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers’ Group, a New Georges affiliated artist, and a founding member/leader of the writer-director group TAG at The Tank. She also makes work with her company Needy Lover. Upcoming: RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR. World Premiere Production with The Hearth and The Connelly Theater Upstairs, December 2024. Workshop Production with Bramble Theater in Chicago, February 2025. LOBSTER. University Premiere Production, Northwestern University, March 2025.