As co-founding artistic director of The 7 Fingers, Shana Carroll directed and/or co-directed Passagers, Cuisine & Confessions, Séquence 8, Traces, Psy, Loft, La Vie, Le Murmure du Coquelicot, and FeriAmuse (short adaptation of Amuse). Through 7 Fingers collaborations and special projets, she created the circus component of Queen of the Night at the Diamond Horseshoe in New York City and co-designed of the medieval segment of the Sochi Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. Shana is well known for her acrobatic and circus choreography. She choreographed four gold medal-winning numbers at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris and directed Il Fait Dimanche for the National Circus School in Montreal. She has frequently collaborated with Cirque du Soleil, most recently as co-director of their first show on ice Crystal, and previously as acrobatic designer and choreographer of Paramour (Broadway) and Iris (Los Angeles), and as choreographer of their performance at the 2012 Academy Awards. Shana has received Best Choreography nominations at the 2008 Drama Desk Awards (Traces) and the 2003 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards (Circumstance). 

Originally from Berkeley, California, Shana began her career as a trapeze artist with San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus and went on to a 20-year career in the air with Cirque du Soleil and many others before founding The 7 Fingers.