Dana Kinsey is a poet, actor, freelance writer, fine-arts teacher, and theater director. Her stage play, WaterRise, premiered at the Gene Frankel Theatre in Greenwich Village in June 2015 and was also produced by Sagesse Productions as a short film. She is a faculty member in the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Lancaster Catholic High School in Pennsylvania where she teaches acting technique, dramaturgy, British literature, and playwriting.