Member Profiles
Alana Arenas
Biography
Alana Arenas joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 2007 and created the role of Pecola Breedlove for the Steppenwolf for Young Adults production of The Bluest Eye, which also played at the New Victory Theater Off-Broadway. Recent Steppenwolf appearances include the Steppenwolf for Young Adults production of Monster, The Fundamentals, Marie Antoinette, Tribes, Belleville, Head of Passes, Good People, Three Sisters, The March, Man in Love, Middletown, The Hot L Baltimore, The Etiquette of Vigilance, The Brother/Sister Plays, The Tempest, The Crucible, Spare Change and The Sparrow Project. Other theatre credits include Disgraced (American Theater Company), The Arabian Nights (Lookingglass Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Eyes (eta Creative Arts), SOST (MPAACT), WVON (Black Ensemble Theater) and Hecuba (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Television and film credits include David Makes Man, Canal Street, Crisis, Boss, The Beast, Kabuku Rides and Lioness of Lisabi. She is originally from Miami, Florida, where she began her training at the New World School of the Arts. Alana holds a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Watch & Listen
Past Productions
- The Fundamentals
- Balm in Gilead (Remount at the Apollo Theater Center)
- Belleville
- Dream Chicago
- Good People
- Head of Passes
- In the Red and Brown Water
- Man in Love
- Marie Antoinette
- Middletown
- Monster
- Spare Change
- Stories on Stage: Tilting at Windmills
- The Bluest Eye
- The Bluest Eye
- The Brother/Sister Plays
- The Brothers Size / Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet
- The Crucible
- The Etiquette of Vigilance
- The Hot L Baltimore
- The March
- The Sparrow Project
- The Tempest
- Three Sisters
- Tribes