• MFA in Acting, Kent State University
• Music Theatre Performance Diploma, Sheridan College, Canada
• Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium

Lana Sugarman (she/her) is an actor, director, intimacy director, and educator with roots in Western Canada. Over the past twenty years she has acted on stages across Canada and the US including Dobama Theatre, Rubber City Theatre, Shakespeare at the Castle, Seat of the Pants, The Citadel, Theatre Northwest, Persephone, Driftwood Theatre, Classic Theatre Festival, Playwright's Local, and the St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival. She is a core member of Seat of the Pants, an ensemble-based, process-driven theatre company in Cleveland, Ohio. Lana is part of Canadian Actor's Equity Association, and ACTRA, and has worked in TV, commercials, and voiceover.

Lana is a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Technique through the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium, and an Intimacy Director with training from both IDC and TIE. Her creative research explores the intersection of these modalities, and the value of a consent-forward framework in the classroom and rehearsal hall. A certified yoga teacher of 15 years, Lana integrates mindfulness and movement into her teaching. 

As a director, Lana has helmed a number of new works, including a rust belt adaptation of Ibsen's Enemy of the People by Les Hunter and the new musical Nothing to See Here, by Bryan Blaskie and Laurie Hochman, both at Rubber City Theatre. She assistant directed the premiere of Ken Ludwig's: Moriarty at the Cleveland Play House with Mark Brokaw and Michael Barakiva. Lana is drawn to poetic text, actor-driven material, and the fostering of new plays through the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid-America Theatre Conference and the Valdez Theatre Conference. Other directing credits include These Shining Lives, As You Like It (Malone University), Concord Floral (University of Akron), and Tuesdays and Sundays (Kent State University).