Playwright - Kate Danley
Kate Danley is a USA TODAY Bestselling author and thirty-year veteran of stage and screen with a B.S. in theatre from Towson University. She was one of four students to be named a Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts.
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. 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.
Her plays have been produced nationally and internationally. Her first full-length play, BUILDING MADNESS, won the prestigious 2016 Panowski Playwriting Competition. POWER won Best of the Renegade Theatre Festival. KINGS OF THE WORLD won 3rd place in the 10x10x10 Festival. She is one of the original co-founders of the Seattle Playwrights Salon. 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.