​Alana Dietze is a Los Angeles-based director, actor and former Associate Artistic Director of the Echo Theater Company. KCRW’s Anthony Byrnes said “Ms. Dietze has directed a string of plays at the Echo, including Dry Land and A Small Fire, that have provided tender, poignant and fierce windows on the female experience. If you don’t know her work, you should.” Her 2021 World Premiere of Poor Clare with the Echo received 8 LADCC Awards including Production and Direction. Other notable productions with the Echo include Crabs in a Bucket (LADCC Winner for Writing and Costumes), The Wolves (LADCC Winner for Ensemble), Dry Land (Ovation Winner for Production, Intimate Theater), The Found Dog Ribbon Dance  (included in Best Season Ovation Nomination) and A Small Fire (Ovation, Stage Raw and LADCC nominee).  Dry Land was 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). Other directing work includes Poor Clare (Occidental College), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (CalRep / CSULB), I'll Get You My Pretty (LATC/USC), A List of Happenings at 1016 14th St (UCLA), Elevada (Occidental College), Still Harvey Still (UCLA), You On The Moors Now (CSARTS-SGV), Ripe Frenzy (Greenway Ct. Theater), as well as numerous workshops, short plays and readings for Public Assembly (where she is also a company member), Playwrights Arena, Ammunition Theater, Luna Stage, Garry Marshall, Skylight, IAMA, EST/LA, Moving Arts, Antaeus and more. As an actor, she most recently appeared as Nora in the Echo's production of Dido of Idaho (TicketHolder Award, Best Actress, LA Theatre Bites Nomination, Best Actress). Other stage appearances include The Recital (Monkspace), Charlotte Stay Close (EST/LA, Ovation nomination for Ensemble), Gloria (Echo, Stage Raw Winner - Comedy Ensemble), An Undivided Heart (Echo), Fugue (Echo), Everything Will Be Different (Echo, Ovation nominations for Leading Actress, Ensemble, Production), The Red Letter Plays (Illyrian Players), The Devil's Wife (Skylight), Lascivious Something (Circle X) and The Hillary Game (Padua Playwrights). Alana is originally from Oakland, CA and holds a BA in Theater from Occidental College. Prior to becoming Associate Artistic Director, she served as the Echo’s Literary Manager for ten years. In addition to her frequent guest directing appointments at colleges and universities, she serves as a Faculty Lecturer at CSULB.