Pana wrote and directed The New Earth, performed at The Zoellner Center, The Water Ceremony, performed at Muhlenberg College and The Initiation, performed at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center. She also wrote the children’s plays The Book of Angels, Secrets of the Oak, the Bear and the Mystic Mountain, and recently, Lettuce Alone, Lettuce Together, How the Chicken Got its Pluck and The Beet Goes On for Pebble Theatre. She got her acting training at SUNY Purchase and The New Actors Workshop in New York. Favorite productions include playing Nina in The Sea Gull directed by Apollo Dukakis, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Paul Sills, Maenad in The Women Of Bakkhos, directed by Whit MacLaughlin, and Marguerite in University directed by Gene Hackman. In 1998, she began a four-year journey through Hawaii, Egypt, Europe, and Southwestern UnitedStates, studying how different cultures use music, dance, and story telling intheir rituals. She discovered the synthesis of ritual with performance would make vital theatre to address concerns for the new millennium. In 2004, she co-founded Circle of Stones Ritual Theatre Ensemble to continue this exploration.