Yiana Pandelis

Yiana Pandelis is an Australian actor, writer, artist and creative producer. At the age of 2, Yiana was diagnosed with a hearing loss known to not have impacted any other family members. Yiana grew up always eager to speak and communicate aloud using her own language. Her parents saw this endeavor and made the decision to raise her in a hearing world supporting her to improve and develop her speech. Yiana has been doing acting classes for 11 years, graduating from a 2-year full-time course at Acting Performance Studio and trained at 16th Street and TAFTA completing several units. In 2014 & 2018 she attended Stella Adler in Los Angeles to continue to work on her craft doing intensive workshops. Yiana has attended film school at Swinburne University where she learned to direct, produce, write, and edit. After completing a year of her studies she had a realisation after reading a quote by Quentin Tarantino "I didn't go to film school, I went to films." From that point on, she decided to risk it all with what she knew to make her own films, telling stories that she believed in. Aside from acting and film making, Yiana's hobbies are writing, art, basketball, traveling, martial arts, and stunts.