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. The Woodcutter will be going to the moon as part of a lunar time capsule in 2023 aboard the Peregrine One by Astrobiotic.
Her 1930s screwball comedy, Building Madness, won the Panowski Playwriting Award; Power won the Renegade Theatre Festival; and Kings of the World was voted an audience favorite in the 10x10x10 Festival. Working for Crumbs was a 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 in April 2023. Her adaptation of Agatha Christie’s first Poirot book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 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