About ALANA

Alana Grelyak is a writer, actress, musician, and the founder of Catharsis Creative LLC, a company dedicated to creating engaging content. She is best known for her script writing and acting in the CATastrophes Web Series, with over 132,000 subscribers and 42 million views on YouTube. Her blog CatInTheFridge.com won Best Blog from the 2014 Cat Writer’s Association Awards. Alana’s writing has been published in numerous local and national publications since 2005 and she currently has three books available.

Alana is serving as the 2021 Vice President of the Cat Writer’s Association. She holds a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from UW-Madison, the 2015 Golden Kitty Award from CatVidFest, and a YouTube Silver Play Button. She is currently working on a new YouTube project called Cat In The Fridge Films.

Alana often donates her time to animal rescue causes, frequently fostering homeless kittens and speaking and writing on the topics of adoption and rescue. She was last seen as a speaker at The ACATemy 2020 where she gave a talk entitled “Personify the Pets: Focused Humor Saves Lives.” Alana was previously the Manager of Marketing and Community Relations at Tree House Humane Society and spent the latter half of 2020 as the Associate Director of Content at PAWS Chicago. She is currently spending her best hours of the day making cat videos, studying tarot, and designing content for some very special clients. She recently moved from Chicago to a small town just outside Chattanooga, TN, and it is heaven.