Kate Danley is an award winning playwright and novelist.  She spent over five weeks on the USA TODAY bestseller list and has sold over a million books globally.  She has been honored with the Garcia Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year (The Woodcutter), McDougall Previews Award for Best Fantasy Book of the Year (Queen Mab), and her series Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker has been optioned for film and television development. 

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 graduated from Towson University with a BS in Theatre Summa cum Laude and was named a Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts.  She trained at RADA London, The Groundlings, Folger Shakespeare, Theatricum Botanicum, and Acme Comedy Theater.  She also attended the CTI Intensive and subsequent workshops in commercial producing, the Kenyan Playwrights Conference, and the Arvon at the Hurst writing program in radio drama.  She performed her original stand-up at such clubs as The Comedy Store and The Icehouse.  She belonged to the main company and wrote sketch for a weekly show in Hollywood.  She won the Breckenridge Festival of Film Screenplay Competition for her feature script Fairy Blood.  Her film shorts The Playhouse, Dog Days, Sock Zombie, SuperPout, and Sports Scents can be seen in festivals and on the internet. 

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