Actor|Dancer|Singer|Speaker
Whitney Browne Photography, 2021
AbouT ALANA:
Alana Raquel Bowers is a Baltimore-bred, New York City-based actor, dancer, singer, and activist. She is a passionate artist whose life goal is to inspire those who have a dream and to use her own dream to change the world for the better.
Alana is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Drama and a double minor in Sociology and Africana Studies. She graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts in Baltimore, MD in 2012.
Alana has performed and trained around the world. Her dance talents have taken her across the country and her acting credits span across many parts of both the US and the UK.
Expanding her talents beyond the spotlight, Alana is very familiar with being behind the camera as well. She co-directed and shot an original documentary entitled Ritmos Del Alma Española while living and studying in Madrid, Spain in 2015. In 2017, Alana assistant directed Tisch School of the Arts' production of "The Colored Museum" by George C. Wolfe under the direction of Kent Gash and Byron Easley. This was her stage directorial debut. Alana also produced and directed an independent project entitled STILL SCREAMING, a social justice music video that brings the voices and emotions of different types of people together to comment on police brutality and gang violence. She plans to continue and expand "STILL SCREAMING" into a full series.
With a knack for social justice and a desire for equality for all, Alana continues to use her artistic talents to challenge societal norms and break boundaries to see a better tomorrow.
**To see and experience Ritmos Del Alma Española and STILL SCREAMING, please visit the “MEDIA” section of the website. Enjoy!
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
Whitney Browne Photography, 2021
Artistic RéSUMé
Alana Raquel Bowers
Robyn Bluestone Management, LLC
SAG Eligible
AEA=========================
Height: 5’6” Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
Valid Driver's License / Valid Passport
THEATRE
Chicken and Biscuits by Douglas Lyons // Simone // Queens Theatre
Cullud Wattah by Erika Dickerson-Despenza // Reesee // The Public Theatre: Public Studio
What to Send Up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris // Three // The Movement Theatre Company
SCRAPS: An Original Play by Geraldine Inoa // Aisha // The Flea Theater
12th Night Or What You Will // Orsino // The Brick Theater Shakespeare Festival
Girls Will Be Girls // Jada // NYC International Fringe Festival- Wow Theatre Café
The American Clock // Irene // New York University
FILM & TV
What Doesn't Float // Z // GUMMY Films
FBI: Most Wanted Season 1 Ep. 2 // Jaynie/Karina // CBS
After Class // Aziza // BondIt Media Capital
Moving Violation // Kristen // Moving Picture Institute
Privilege Unhinged // Candace // OneScribe Media
She Sets the City On Fire // Dancer // RCA Records
Consensual // Karli // School of Visual Arts Thesis
PRÆY // Reason // Praise Proda Entertainment
Step Up 2 // Extra // Paramount Pictures
STAGED READINGS & WORKSHOPS
BEAU by Douglas Lyons // Directed by Douglas Lyons // The Director's Company
Cullud Wattah by Erika Dickerson-Despenza // Directed by Candis C. Jones // The Public Theater (Public Studio)
[Hieroglyph] by Erika Dickerson-Despenza // Directed by Colette Robert // The Lark
Chicken & Biscuits 1 + 2 by Douglas Lyons // Directed by Zhailon Levingston // Ripley-Grier & Queens Theatre
Spades by Marcus Callendar // Directed by Marcus Callendar // Manhattan Theatre Club
Prunin, Hoein & Cuttin Grapes by Nissy Aya // Directed by Miranda Haymon // Theater Lab
Cowgirl Play by Charly Evon Simpson // Directed by Colette Robert // Primary Stages
Malignant by Natyna "Bean" Osborne // Directed by Natyna "Bean" Osborne // New School
Chicken & Biscuits 3 by Douglas Lyons // Directed by Zhailon Levingston // Billie Holiday Theater
Trapt by Stacey Rose // Directed by Candis C. Jones // New Georges
Othello by William Shakespeare // Directed by Samuel Im // La Mama
For the Trade by Donja R. Love // Directed by Donja R. Love // The Lark
Inked Baby by Christina Anderson // Directed by Candis C. Jones // New Dramatists
Chicken & Biscuits 4 by Douglas Lyons // Directed by Zhailon Levingston // Ripley-Grier
Form of A Girl Unknown by Charly Evon Simpson // Directed by Melissa Crespo // Westport Playhouse
Tectonic Workshop
Sunshine: For Trans Women of Color Who Illuminate Light, But Aren't Allowed to Bask In the Sun by Douglas Lyons // Directed by Douglas Lyons // The Director's Company
A Compulsion for Breathing by Nina Angela Mercer // Directed by Tanisha Christie // Target Margin Theater
AUDIO DRAMA
"A Columbus Play" by Daniela de Jesús // Anacaona & Solandra // The Parsnip Ship
VOICEOVERS
Calvert School Testing // Narrator // Calvert School Inc.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts BFA Drama Recipient
- New Studio on Broadway, Acting and Musical Theatre, Stonestreet Studios *International Theatre Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Baltimore School for the Arts
Acting: Robert O’Hara, Kent Gash, Orlando Pabotoy, Kenneth Noel Mitchell, Andrew Wade, Kathryn Rossetter, Michele Shay, Heather A. Sims, Donald Hicken Voice: Michael McElroy, Eden Espinosa, Bradley Dean, Dawn-Elin Fraser, Nancy Krebs, Denise Diggs Movement: Byron Easley, Cleo Parker-Robinson, Barry McNabb, Amy Hall, Stephanie Powell, Maria Broom
Special Skills: Proficient in reading and writing in French and Spanish, Michael Jackson and Eartha Kitt enthusiast
Whitney Browne Photography, 2021