Ylana is an actress‚ writer and singer whose credits include: Playing Alexina (Theatre of Necessity)‚ Miracle at Merryvale (Ensemble Studio Theatre)‚ and In the Family Way (produced and directed by Rachel Gordon) currently in post-production. She is presently co-starring as Veronica in Everything’s Coming Up Ro’ses‚ a web series created by and starring Roetta Collins‚ directed by Lee Eypper.

Devoted to helping others‚ Ylana is also a member of New York Women In Film and Television as well‚ and actively participates on its Special Events and Programming Committees. In the fall of 2011‚ she was appointed to the Screen Actors Guild National Women’s Committee. In 2010‚ Ylana served a panelist for Sade Badeninwa’s Get Reel With Your Dreams: The Inside Track‚ a program which offers information and encouragement to disadvantaged New York City high school students seeking careers in the arts.

Ylana has associate-produced several educational short films for The Missouri Department of Natural Resources Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park Visitors Center (Middlebrook‚ Missouri)‚ and the Lewis and Clark Confluence Tower Visitors Center (Hartford‚ Illinois)‚ all of which were produced and directed by Geralyn Abinader | gaMedia Group.