Kate Danley is a USA TODAY Bestselling author and twenty-five 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 half-a-million books globally. She ranked as the #20 author on all of Amazon March 2014. 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 as part of the
boxed set Magic After Dark and has been optioned for film and television development by Drop of Water Entertainment. 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 in New York, Los Angeles, Bath (UK), Ottawa (CA), Grande Prairie (CA), Chicago, Houston, Seattle, Anchorage, and across Maryland. Her first full-length play Building Madness won the prestigious 2016 Panowski Playwriting Competition. Her second full-length play, Perfectly UnINtentional (formerly Bureaucrazy), was a semi-finalist in the O'Neill National Playwriting Conference and Moss Hart + Kitty Carlisle NPI. She was the co-founder of the Seattle Playwrights Salon. Her screenplay Fairy Blood won 1st Place in the Breckenridge Festival of Film Screenwriting Competition in the Action/Adventure Category and her screenplay American Privateer was a 2nd Round Choice in the Carl Sautter Memorial Screenwriting Competition. Her scripts The Playhouse, Dog Days, Sock Zombie, SuperPout, and Sports Scents can be seen in festivals and on the internet. 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.
For more information on Kate and her other projects, visit www.katedanley.com.