Better than being named Best Name to see in a Theatre Program by Chronicle critics in 1995, Lana had the honor of being named one of Austin's Top Forty Stage Actors in the September 28, 2001, issue of the Austin Chronicle. A four-time B. Iden Payne award winner, Lana was nominated for 2002's Vigil at Hyde Park Theatre, and she took home the Austin Critic's Table award for that role and for Sixteen Spells to Charm a Beast. One of Lana's short films has made it to the Independent Film Channel—watch for it. In it (Last Cigarette) she plays a disgruntled office worker, and catch her in a rerelease starring David Carradine, Monster Hunter, in which Lana plays the mother of a serial killer. Her latest film credit: a night nurse at a meat-packing plant, in Fast Food Nation, directed by Richard Linklater. Lana is the proud mother of Cassie Fitzgerald, recent graduate of the McCallum Fine Arts Academy, and Miles (Rocky) Stone, purveyor of fine cuisine at Dog Almighty Hot Dogs and father of Cotton King Stone, Lana's only grandchild. Lana shares her condo with Courtney (a border collie) and Dr. Pants (a goldfish). She enjoys reading, film, riding her bike, playing board games, and accessorizing.

LANA DIETERICH