Dana Marie Ingraham is a dancer, actor and writer based in New York City. She initially  trained at the Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center; NYC’s LaGuardia H.S of  Performing Arts; The Ailey School; and Southern Methodist University, earning a BFA in Dance Performance and a BA in Sociology. She began her career as a concert dancer, touring nationally and internationally with dance companies such as Philadanco and Armitage Gone! Dance, among others. Her concert dance journey granted her the opportunity to work with notable choreographers, including Alonzo King, Karole Armitage, George Faison, and Francesca Harper,  as well as perform the works of Paul Taylor, Jose Limon, and many other choreographers of renown. She established her  musical theater career on Broadway in the musicals Hot Feet, Spider-Man Turn Off the  Dark and Motown the Musical; as well as the national touring companies of The Lion  King, The Color Purple, and Motown the Musical. Dana Marie was also a featured actor in Ken  Urban’s critically acclaimed play Sense of an Ending at 59E59 Theaters;  Antony and Cleopatra at the Tennessee Williams Theater Festival; and indie  film Dividends. She was most recently seen in The Public Theater’s production of The Harder They Come, directed by Tony Taccone and Sergio Trujillo, with choreography by Edgar Godineaux.  As a writer, she recently received a Poet and Author Fellowship to the Martha's Vineyard Creative Writing Institute. Her writing has been featured as part of “Memory: A Storytelling Event” for Repair’s Transformation series; Lilac Jam at The Rockaway Hotel; as part of Toni That Sterrett's artist residency at NYC Greene Space; and in collaboration with visual artist Zoe Buckman on “The Keeping Kind” as part of Buckman’s NFT residency on the NFT platform Voice. She is co-founder emeritus of community service organization Broadway Serves (an affiliate program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS,) and was awarded as a United States Presidential Scholar of the Arts.