BIO
Alana, a Toronto native, always knew she wanted to be a performer. At the age of 3, dance was what started her love for performing. Alana has competed in dance competitions all over Canada and the U.S. She has had the opportunities of dancing for many artists such as Bow Wow, Boomtang Boys, Neil Young, and Katy Perry, just to name a few. She was also a dancer for the Toronto Raptors Dance Pak and the Toronto Argonauts sports teams.
Aside from dancing, in her early pre-teens, Alana became serious about acting and singing. She had already been in numerous commercials, films and music videos – but that wasn’t enough for her. So she put a hold on her career to further her education in performance. Right after high school, she studied theatre performance for a year at Humber College and went on to study musical theatre at the Randolph Academy. After graduation, she worked hard to build a name in this industry. As if all that education wasn’t enough, in 2009, Alana graduated from the New York Film Academy studying Broadcast Journalism in New York City and lived there for a good while. She came back to Canada to do a show and has been booked solid ever since. Alana has been seen in commercials for McDonalds, Payless Shoes, Liberty Mutual, and CTV’s “So You Think You Can Dance Canada.”
A few years ago, Alana even gave Film/TV acting a whirl and landed her first principal role playing the character of Maya in the MTV movie “MADE…The Movie”. After working on several other Film/TV sets, she soon landed her biggest role yet as a series regular on the CW hit TV series “Hellcats”, playing the character of Frankie. After the amazing experience of filming a full season along side Ashley Tisdale, from Disney’s High School Musical, she knew that TV/Film was something that she wanted to pursue. So she went on to feature in other TV/Film projects such as Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, the LA Complex, and the 2013 remake of Carrie to name a few. Not to dismiss theatre, because this tiny triple threat of a performer will always be a theatre baby. Selected theatre credits include, “Vagina Monologues” (Jerry Orbach Theatre, NYC), “Hair” (The Grand Theatre), “Hairspray” (Drayton Theatres), In the 1st Canadian cast of “High School Musical” in the role of Taylor McKessie, “Footloose” in the role of Rusty.
Currently, Alana is in the cast of the famous Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new Musical remake of “The Wizard Of Oz” which made its North American premiere in Toronto at the Ed Mirvish Theatre this past January 2013. Closing in August 2013 to embark on a US National tour, this fresh, new and exciting musical opened to a sold out house (Seats 2,055 people) at the Smithe Center in Las Vegas on September 10, 2013. Still currently on tour, Alana truly feels blessed that she is able to do what she loves. She strives to inspire, be inspired, and create a strong impact on her audiences when she performs whether through movement, words, or song.