Lana began her career under the direction of Robert Rodriguez, playing Antonio Banderas’ misbehaving daughter in the Miramax film Four Rooms. After obtaining a theater degree from UCLA, Lana began posting short films, comedy sketches, and song parodies on her YouTube channel, and has since garnered a following of almost 200,000 subscribers. Shortly thereafter, she formed a production company, through which she has created a number of horror and sci-fi genre short films in collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, Stan Lee, and Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment.
Lana had two films released in 2019, including STX’s Countdown, and Mar Vista’s A Christmas Movie Christmas, in which she plays the starring role. TV appearances include Shameless, Hawaii Five-0, The OA, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Life In Pieces. She recurs on multiple animated series, including The Lion Guard, Shimmer and Shine, and was a series regular on Amazon’s DARK/WEB and Machinima’s TRANSFORMERS: COMBINER WARS & TITANS RETURN. She was chosen among hundreds to be a part of 2017’s prestigious CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase.
In addition to acting, she is also an accomplished singer, and was a recording artist with Sony Records, Japan. She performs live regularly in Rockwell Table and Stage’s Unauthorized Musical Parody series.
On this episode I talked with Lana and Nathan about how they first discovered their passion for performing, their education experiences, creating their own content on YouTube their performances on stage pre-Rockwell Table & S...