Elana Cantor

Elana Cantor is a vivacious, driven, and honest performer with a New York charm. Since her first musical at the age of four when she played a puppet goat in “The Sound of Music,” she has continued to train and perform and is a 2022 graduate from the Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program at UCLA. 

Since her time at UCLA, Elana has performed on the East Coast and in New York City, and then went on to join AIDA Cruise Lines as a Lead Vocalist where she performed all throughout Scandinavia, Northern Europe, and the Baltic Countries as well. Elana learned six different shows for this contract, performed solo spotlights, and also created her own show with her fellow Lead Vocalists. She even learned how to sing in Italian!

She also is a strong advocate for mental health, and believes the world of performance is intertwined with it. She used her musical theater major and cognitive science minor at UCLA to intern at a non-profit, UCLA-based organization called “The Center for Scholars and Storytellers” that bridges the gap between scholars and storytellers to promote youth mental health. There, she conducted research and reported on the effects of social media platform use, communicated with celebrities’ representatives to request support for and involvement in outreach activities, and developed social media accounts for the organization. She then worked in Westchester Medical Center as an Activities Specialist, leading recreational therapy groups, overseen by the physicians in the unit, that focused on developing children and adolescents' social, communication, and coping skills. Elana continues to study the cross-over between the world of performance and the human psyche. She hopes to use her performance skills and her pop edge to inspire people within the theater world and beyond.