Biography

Dana Joiner has been working in the entertainment industry as a writer, producer, assistant director and content creator for the past 15 years with a particular emphasis on female focused content. The Texas native got her start in LA just after moving from New York when she created and Executive Produced Facebook Live and Periscope's first and only live broadcast scripted comedy series. The offbeat, scripted farce, Houghton Heights, was the first of its kind allowing viewers to tweet and Instant Message during the show to alter the direction of the content in real-time and was also the project that led to meeting her writing partner. Dana is currently a co-creator along with fellow Southern native, Heidi-Marie Ferren. Their affinity for women's work in the twentieth century has led to scripted one-hour dramas such as the Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline Nashville Film Festival award winning series Woman Enough/Unsung; the Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline scripted series about the early women of country music that has been labeled, "the MADMEN of these women" and is currently being shopped. The writing team was recently brought in to develop and co-write the KEPS Mystery Series for television/streaming based off the optioned book series. The project has been well received and recently attached Tanya Tucker and Wynonna Judd as the amateur sleuth crime fighting duo. Dana and Heidi are currently developing two biopic features with all rights procured for the story of legendary female comedian, Minnie Pearl, "How-DEE:" Once an Oversight, Now a Trademark, and A Woman Before Her Time: The Jackie Shane Story, about the transgender pioneer of 1960's Soul Music and the first chart topping trans woman of color in rhythm & blues. In addition to Dana's work on Woman Enough, she has the rights to and is in development on their next one-hour drama, American Havoc, the provocative and untold story of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee amid depression era Vaudeville and the entertainment revolution that built America. As an author, the earliest draft of her soon to be published novel, an untitled historical fiction based off the untold story of the first flight attendants post WWII; before the "mile high club," about the 1940's darlings that originated the proverbial Playboy Bunny suit with wings, has already been fielding interest toward being optioned into a limited series. In front of the camera, Dana can be seen on HBO's Togetherness and ABC's American Crime and in her principal role as Natalie in the film 8 Winds opposite Robert Davi. Dana was recently slated to co-write Overton Film's Martin Luther King documentary based on the first MLK parade in East Texas and just consulted on the controversial feature based on the first University Production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America in the Bible Belt. Dana is a passionate supporter of the Scottish Rite Children's Hospital who operated on her for her Clubfoot (a birth defect from a parent's exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam) at the early age of 18 months. One of their many skilled surgeons is responsible for her walking today and being able to dance as a child. A debt of gratitude she feels she will forever owe and repays with every opportunity she gets.
- IMDb mini biography by: Acuity