Ana Pasti is an Eastern-European actress originally from Romania. In 2011 she won a Fulbright Grant and completed an MFA in acting at USC in Los Angeles. She performed on both continents in over 25 theatre productions, numerous short films, award winning features and popular TV series. She became interested in writing while collaborating in developing two ensemble theatre pieces based on Sophocles’ Greek tragedies ​Electra and ​Trojan Women,​ both performed at Dock Scene Theatre in LA. She also created two solo performance shows of which ​Because I can or the things I'd do for love ​was selected in ​Hollywood Fringe Festival. Even though she never took a screenwriting class, before writing ​In Between, she wrote the script for the short ​A day from a life of a pay phone ​in which she also starred as the leading role. ​Into the night ​represents her directorial debut, although she has no formal training as a filmmaker.