Playwright - Kate Danley

Kate Danley is a USA TODAY Bestselling author, a Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts, and thirty-five-year veteran of stage and screen with a B.S. in theatre from Towson University.

She has sold over a million books globally. Her debut novel, The Woodcutter (published by 47North) hit #6 on all of Amazon, was honored with the Garcia Award for the Best Fiction Book of the Year, 1st Place Fantasy Book in the Reader Views Literary Awards, and was the winner of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Her book Maggie for Hire spent five weeks on the USA Today Bestselling list and has been optioned for film and television. Queen Mab was honored with the McDougall Previews Award for Best Fantasy Book of the Year and was named the 1st Place Fantasy Book in the Reader Views Reviewers Choice Awards. It has since been adapted for the stage.

Her plays have been produced nationally and internationally. Her first full-length play, BUILDING MADNESS, won the prestigious 2016 Panowski Playwriting Competition and was nominated for thirteen Broadway World regional awards. Her second full-length play, WORKING FOR CRUMBS (formerly BUREAUCRAZY), was a semi-finalist in the O'Neill National Playwriting Conference and a semi-finalist in the Moss Hart & Kitty Carlisle New Play Initiative. It received two OFFIE (Off West End) award nominations and two Broadway World UK/West End nominations for its Off-West End debut in London. POWER won Best of the Renegade Theatre Festival. KINGS OF THE WORLD won 3rd place in the 10x10x10 Festival. Her adaptation of Agatha Christie's MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES had its world premiere at Theatre in the Round, the oldest theatre in Minneapolis, and received sixteen Broadway World nominations.

She is one of the original co-founders of the Seattle Playwrights Salon and now sits on the board of Rain City Projects, advocating for Pacific Northwest Playwrights. She trained in on-camera puppetry with Mr. Snuffleupagus and played the head of a 20-foot dinosaur on an NBC pilot. She has over 300+ film, theatre, and television credits to her name. She lost on Hollywood Squares.

Read her other plays on the New Play Exchange.