ABOUT
Lianah Sta. Ana is an actor, writer, and cultural worker of Filipino descent. After making her Broadway debut at 17 years old in the revival of Miss Saigon, Lianah decided to pursue a B.A. from Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) to gain a more critical understanding of the ideologies and systems enabling popular representations of historically oppressed bodies on U.S. stages.
Her own creative work, located at the intersection of Filipino and Filipino American culture, history, and memory, combines theory and practice to empower audiences and encourage critical consciousness. She sees her work as an organizer as inseparable from her creative work, and aims to utilize both toward our shared struggle for liberation. In line with this objective, she is currently developing a new “kind-of” musical titled PERFORMING FILIPINA.
Lianah Sta. Ana 