Better than being named Best Name to see in a Theatre Program by Chronicle critics in 1995, Lana had the honor of being named one of Austin's Top Forty Stage Actors in the September 28, 2001, issue of the Austin Chronicle. A four-time B. Iden Payne award winner, Lana took home the Austin Critic's Table award for her roles in Vigil and Sixteen Spells to Charm a Beast. One of Lana's short films has made it to the Independent Film Channel - watch for it. In it (Last Cigarette) she plays a disgruntled office worker, and catch her in a rerelease starring David Carradine, Monster Hunter, in which Lana plays the mother of a serial killer. Her latest film credits: a nurse in both Teeth, a film by Mitchell Lichtenstein, and Fast Food Nation, a film by Richard Linklater. Lana is the proud mother of Cassie Fitzgerald, fellow actor, ACC student, and Alamo Ritz chef, and Miles (Rocky) Stone, engineer in steel fabrication and father of Cotton King Stone, Lana's only grandchild. Lana shares her condo with Courtney (a border collie) and Dr. Pants (a goldfish). She enjoys reading, film, riding her bike, entertaining Cotton, playing board games, rabid political proselytizing, and accessorizing.

Education

B.A. English and Theatre Arts, University of Kentucky (certified to teach), 1979

M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982

Bureau Career

Bureau Proofreader 1987–1989

Editor 1989–present

Publications

Masterson, A. R., and Dieterich, Lana, 1990, Bibliography and index of Texas geology, 1981–1985: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 463 p.

Dieterich, L. S., 1981, Nonverbal communication in ESL education: a review of literature: The University of Texas at Austin, M.A. report, 46 p.

Dieterich, L. S., 1983, Syntactic analysis of Beowulf's fight with Grendel: Comitatus, v. 13.

Committees

Co-Chairman, Spouse Committee, GCAGS Convention, Austin, Texas, October 2002

Awards

Fourth Place, Beta Sigma Phi Short Story Contest, 1968

St. Nicholas Prize, Best Article, Comitatus, 1983

Best Supporting Actress, Drama, B. Iden Payne Award, 1984

Best Supporting Actress, Comedy, B. Iden Payne Award, 1985

Barnie Award, Our Town, 1991–92

Best Actress, Comedy, B. Iden Payne Award, 1993

Best Name to See in a Theatre Program, Austin Chronicle, 1995

Top Forty Austin Actors, Austin Chronicle, 2001

Best Actress, Vigil and Sixteen Spells to Charm a Beast, 2002

Contact

Lana S. Dieterich
Editor
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-475-9528

May 2006