About the Playwright

Kate Danley spent five weeks on the USA TODAY bestseller list.  She was honored with the Garcia Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year (The Woodcutter, 47North), McDougall Previews Award for Best Fantasy Book of the Year (Queen Mab), and her series Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker is optioned for television.  A time capsule aboard the Griffith Lander by Astrobotic will be placing her plays and books on the moon.

Her 1930s screwball comedy, Building Madness, won the Panowski Playwriting Award and received its professional world premiere at Harlequin Productions.  Working for Crumbs won the B Street Theatre’s New Comedies Festival and will be having its profession world premiere at the B Street Theatre in Sacramento June - July 2026.  It was a finalist in the Union Arts Center New Works Northwest festival, semi-finalist in the O'Neill and the Moss Hart & Kitty Carlisle New Play Initiative, and was nominated for two OFFIE Awards for its Off-West End debut.  Her adaptation of Agatha Christie’s first Poirot book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was a Critics’ Pick by the Star Tribune, listed as one of the highlights of the year by Play Off the Page, and was nominated for sixteen Broadway World Regional awards.

She graduated from Towson University and is a Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts.  She trained at The Groundlings, Theatricum Botanicum, Impro (Shakespearian improv), and the Acme Comedy Theater.  She performed her original stand-up at such clubs as The Comedy Store and The Icehouse, and wrote sketch for a weekly show in Hollywood.  She trained in on-camera puppetry with Michael Earl (Mr. Snuffleupagus, Sesame Street) and lost on Hollywood Squares.  www.katedanley.com