Dana M. Campbell
2006 Emmy Winner for -Outstanding Costumes for a Variety or Music Program “Dancing with the Stars” Season 2
Dana Campbell is an Emmy award-winning costume designer whose career includes motion pictures, movies for television, tv series, comedies, dramas, reality programs, variety specials and the mega-popular live competition “Dancing With the Stars.” It was, in fact, “Dancing With the Stars” for which she won an Emmy Award (shared with Randall Christensen) for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety or Music Program.
Her film credits include her fifth collaboration with acclaimed cinematographer and director Ernest Dickerson on the award-winning feature, “Double Play,” including his previous film, “Bones.” She was the costume designer on Lasse Hallstrom’s romantic drama “Dear John,” starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried; “The New Daughter,” starring Kevin Costner, and was the personal designer for Wesley Snipes on “Game of Death.” Among her lighter film fare is the classic “Friday After Next” as well as the raucous “Janky Promoters,” both with Ice Cube, Mike Epps and director Marcus Raboy. Campbell was the costume designer on the feature film “Johnson Family Vacation” starring Cedric the Entertainer, Vanessa Williams and Steve Harvey.
Dana’s had a busy 2020, juggling two series: Season 1 of “Interrogation” for CBS All Access and Season 3 of “The Neighborhood” for CBS Studios. She has been the costume designer for five seasons of “Real Husbands of Hollywood” and more recently designed costumes for the series “Comedy Get Down,” starring comedy titans, Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, DL Hughley, Charlie Murphy and George Lopez.
She designed “Def Comedy Jam” and the HBO Comedy Special “Cedric the Entertainer --Takin You Higher” as well as the costumes for the multiple Emmy Award-winning HBO mini-series “The Corner,” and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s series “All of Us.” Her period costumes have been showcased in the American Playhouse production of “Daughters of the Dust” and she’s been lauded by Variety for the authenticity of her work on the Hallmark Channel miniseries “Blackbeard.”