Kate Danley

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. 

BUILDING MADNESS won the 2016 Panowski Playwriting Competition and was nominated for thirteen Broadway World regional awards. WORKING FOR CRUMBS (formerly BUREAUCRAZY) won the B Street Theatre’s New Comedies Festival 2025, two DASH awards for “Best Dead Body Choreography” and “Best Special Effects” at the Burlington Players, was a finalist in the New Works Northwest Festival at ACT Contemporary Theatre, 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 was a “Pick of the Week” by the Star Tribune, “Best of the Year” by Play off the Page, and received sixteen Broadway World nominations.

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