WELCOME NEW COLONY MANAGING DIRECTOR DANA PENROD

The Screenwriter's Colony is excited to announce and welcome Dana Penrod as our new managing director and Callie Barber as our new Special Events and Development Coordinator.

Dana Penrod, new Managing Director

Dana comes from a background in both film production and non-profit program management. She has worked on several feature films including Academy Award nominee, The VisitorTrumbo, about blacklisted novelist and screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo; and the critically acclaimed Compliance, written and directed by Craig Zobel. For several years, Dana led international youth travel and educational enrichment programs with the International YMCA’s Global Teens initiative and World Learning’s Experiment in International Living. She has also worked for freeDimensional, a organization that promotes free speech and cultural democracy by mobilizing arts spaces and human rights advocates to aid artist activists persecuted for their creative expression and political activism. Dana is a master’s degree candidate with the School for International Training’s Program in Intercultural Managementwhere she has focused on exploring the intersections of art and social change, and community development and cross-cultural exchange. Dana is also a proud graduate of the School for Creative Activism, class of 2011. 

Callie, a native of Nantucket, spent 3 years studying acting in New York City. She is a graduate of the New Actors Workshop in NYC where she studied under famed director Mike Nichols and his partners Paul Sills and George Morrison. After a few more years spent working in Los Angeles, Callie decided to move home to Nantucket where she now resides full time with her husband and two small children.  Callie has worked in project management for last 6 years and in addition to her work with the Screenwriters Colony, Callie is set to begin work with Nantucket's new professional theatre company The Nantucket Theatre Institute. Callie is heavily involved with a number of Island nonprofits and seeks to keep Nantucket a culturally vibrant place all year long.

Very excited to have them both!