Panowski Playwriting Award Winner Building Madness
Overall Winner of
RenegaDe N.O.W. Theatre Festival Power
Nominated for tWO BroadwayWorld UK/West End Awards
Working for Crumbs
Nominated for two Offies
(Off-West End) Awards
Working for Crumbs
Nominated for thirteen BroadwayWorld
Seattle awards
Building Madness
Nominated for sixteen BroadwayWorld Minneapolis/
St. Paul Awards
The Mysterious
Affair at Styles
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Upcoming Shows
The True Meaning of Christmas
The War on Christmas
Sunday, December 15, 2024 @ 5:00 PM
at
Drunken Owl
Jules Maes Saloon
5919 Airport Wy S
Seattle, WA 98108
The True Meaning of Christmas
Theatrical Shenanigans
12 Plays of Christmas Special
Broadcasting LIVE!
22nd December 2024
10:00am UK time
Working for Crumbs
directed by Alanna Kiewe
Spotlighters Theatre
817 St Paul St
Baltimore, MD 21202
January 10 - February 2, 2025
Working for CrumBS
THE BURLINGTON PLAYERS
February 21- March 8, 2025
THE PARK PLAYHOUSE
ONE EDGEMERE AVENUE
BURLINGTON MA 01803
“BONNIE” AND “JOE” MONOLOGUES FROM LATE SHIFT HAVE BEEN CHOSEN FOR THE SMITH & KRAUS BEST WOMEN’S AND BEST MEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2024 ANTHOLOGIES.
CHECK BACK FOR MORE INFORMATION!
Madam(e) Lou
A one-woman show eight years in the making about Seattle’s most important and forgotten woman…
Madam Lou Graham.
Coming to Seattle in 2025!
My Zombie Valentine
TBA 2025
Five Minute Mile
Theatre on the Run Holidays
Cone Man Running Productions is excited to announce the 32 short plays and monologues that will be our Five Minute Mile - Holiday Edition! The series will perform at Cone Man Running’s space at Spring Street Studios in Houston, Texas.
We will be again staging this one-of-a-kind theatre festival. Each evening, twenty (20) plays will be performed off book by a core ensemble of actors. Eight (8) of those plays will be set for each evening, six (6) will be drawn at random by audience members and the last six (6) will be voted on by the audience (based on title, the blurb provided, and word of mouth). Every night will be a different experience!
Play History
Full Length Plays
A Spirited Manor
FULL LENGTH - Victorian supernatural
A grieving widow. A house with secrets. And an invitation to a séance
When Clara O'Hare's husband passed away, she felt her life was over. But when she moves into a new home to escape the memories, she discovers that she may not be alone...
Desperate to find answers, she attends a séance in a remote country home surrounded by a colorful cast of strangers. But something sinister has decided to make itself known. It will be up to her and medium, Wesley Lowenherz, to find out what the spirits of the manor are dying to tell them.
Laced with gothic romance and paranormal mystery, A Spirited Manor is a fast-paced adventure that examines the journey from grief to purpose, and the return to life after loss.
Production History
JUNE 3, 4, & 5, 2022, VASHON HIGH SCHOOL, VASHON, WA - Directed by Andy Henry
JULY 24, 2022, DRIFTWOOD AFTER DARK - FIRST DRAFT SERIES, WADE JAMES THEATRE, Edmonds, WA - Directed by Tammis Doyle
OCTOBER 13 - 15, 2022, WALKERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, WALKERSVILLE, MD
May 25 - June 3, 2023, Bellevue College, Stop Gap Studio Theater, Bellevue, WA - directed by Tammis Doyle
SMITH & KRAUS
The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023
featuring “Norman” from A Spirited Manor
Building Madness!
PANOWSKI PLAYWRITING AWARD WINNER
"A farce for the ages!”
Visit the Official Building Madness! Website
“The year is 1930. The stock market has just crashed. Max and Paul are just trying to keep their architecture company afloat, but they accidentally hired the mob to build a police retirement home. With the "help" of their dizzy secretary, Trixie, they may never get the project done, but they are most definitely building madness.”
Nominated for Thirteen
BroadwayWorld Regional Awards
Late Shift
ONE ACT - Bonnie has been working the late shift at Don's Diner for the past twenty years. It has been her second home and a source of pride. Tonight is Joe's first day as a cook at Don's Diner and he's late. As these two clash waiting for a 2:00 a.m. rush that may not ever happen, they discover that hopes and dreams come too late for some, and sometimes people are too late in their lives to make a shift.
Late Shift is an exploration of the ruts that people get into, the petty day-to-day minutia that becomes exponentially important, and the tragedy of unrealized dreams as people wait for The Moment.
Madam(e) Lou
A new one-woman show about Seattle’s most important, and most forgotten business woman, Madam Lou Graham.
Production History
BELLINGHAM THEATREWORKS, New Play Café Series, MARCH 5, 2023, BELLINGHAM, WA
Shoestring Radio Theatre, San Francisco Broadcast, February 26 & March 4, 2020
Monster Manor
Regina Mortilor is a vampire and she has to throw the best monster party ever or she'll be turned into a bat and lose Monster Manor. But when the bones of her skeleton pal are discovered, she and her friends will have to discover who was wicked enough to do it.
A monstrously fun, large-cast comedy for middle school performers by USA Today bestselling fantasy author, Kate Danley, where everyone gets to chew the scenery as their favorite Halloween creature! It’s fang-tastic!
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
This faithful, new adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES introduces audiences to the first mystery of Hercule Poirot.
The year is 1916 and, injured in WWI, Hastings finds himself convalescing at the manor of his old friend, John Cavendish. But when John's mother is poisoned in the middle of the night, everyone becomes a suspect. The only person who can solve the crime is none other than the famed Belgium detective, Hercule Poirot.
Agatha Christie's gifts of misdirection are on full display as red herrings, twists, and turns lead the audience on a dizzying journey to find out whodunnit.
November 18-December 18, 2022
Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Kate Danley
Directed by Linda Paulsen
“Critics' Pick” -Star Tribune
“Highlight of 2022” -Play Off the Page
“Playwright Kate Danley has done a superb job of bringing the world premiere of this adaptation to the stage at Theatre in the Round.”
-Mary Aalgaard, Play off the Page
"Not only is this the Best Agatha Christie adaptation I’ve seen at Theatre in the Round Players (TRP) it’s also among their best productions period...This World Premiere adaptation by Kate Danley is the perfect little whodunnit and sure to please mystery fans."
-Rob Dunkelberger, The Stages of MN
“Theatre in the Round's world premiere adaptation of The Mysterious Affair at Styles is an excellent choice that will keep you guessing until the thrilling end.” -Cherry and Spoon
Nominated for Sixteen
BroadwayWorld Regional Awards
Murder on the Links
This faithful, new adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel MURDER ON THE LINKS introduces audiences to the second full-length mystery of Hercule Poirot.
Captain Hastings and the famed Belgium detective, Hercule Poirot, receive a desperate letter calling for help. A man believes that he is about to be murdered and needs them to save his life. But when they arrive, it is too late. His body has been found in the middle of a golf course.
Thus begins a dizzying journey of deception and misdirection as only the Queen of Mystery herself, Agatha Christie, could create.
Power
Overall Winner of Renegade N.O.W.
Renegade Theatre Festival
“On the surface, "Power" appears to be a simple locked-room drama. Tucker and Alice are throwing a dinner party. Tucker works for Dean and believes someone at the company is embezzling money. Tucker falls for Dean's wife, Betty. Dean and Tucker's wife, Alice, are having an affair. Everyone is caught. Relationships fall apart. Dinner is a disaster.
But this play is not about the words.
This play is an exploration of status. "Power" is an ambiguous dialogue. Each night in front of the audience, the cast pulls their status relationships from a hat and must then leap immediately into the play. The entire show exists in the subtext and discoveries happening in real time based upon the luck of the draw. One night, an actor will be the most powerful person on stage, the next night, they will be the outcast. Every show is completely different from performance to performance. Dynamics are fluid, moments are discovered, and the result is a show which is immensely alive.
Power isn't about what is being said… it is about everything else.”
Queen Mab
A Fantasy Retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
When Faunus, the god of daydreams, breaks the heart of the fairy Queen Mab, revenge can be the only answer. Using the most powerful families in Verona, they wage their war against one another.
But when Queen Mab falls in love with a man named Mercutio, she will do anything, even if it means destroying the world, to save him. Will it be enough to stop the tragedy? Or only spur it forward to its terrible end?
Weaving Shakespeare's original text and Kate’s award-winning fantasy book into a new stage play, experience the romance and passion of Romeo & Juliet from a different point of view - through the bringer of dreams... Queen Mab.
Nominated for
Two Offies (Off West End)
and Two
BroadwayWorld Regional Awards
Grace and Amy, two outrageous admins stuck in a soul-sucking job, are just slogging their way through the work week.
But when their supervisor chokes on an oatmeal raisin cookie, it begins a domino-effect of destruction in this quick-witted, sidesplitting farce.
One Acts & Shorts
America - July 2022
Art from the Heart
featuring my piece
“America - July 2022”
Director's Cut Theatre
WHERE: Southwark Playhouse, The Little
WHEN: 31 July 2022, 7pm
Southwark Playhouse
77-85 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BD
The Camera, The Gerbil, and the Big, Wide World
20-minutes
“A nostalgic journey through a childhood friendship, and how a camera and a gerbil made the world huge and wonderful.”
October 24 & 25, 2015
The Public House Theater
Twelve Ways to Play One-Act Festival
CHICAGO, IL
April 25, 2005
24 Hours of Madness - Open at the Top
NoHo Arts Center, North Hollywood, CA
CUE
10-minutes
“John and Mary are in the middle of a romantic scene, but have to scramble when their scene partner keeps missing his cue. Yes! Let's figure out how the show will go on!”
KDC Theatre
Location: Drayton Arms Theatre
153 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 0LJ
Dates & time: Tues 25 & Wed 26 June 2024, 7.30pm
August 10 & 11, 2024
Dating’s a Beast
Three short pieces - Meet the Family, Mystery Date, and Dating Sucks - combined in one cycle to be interspersed throughout an evening of short plays.
“Sue likes the bad boys, but what happens when she starts bringing real monsters home to meet the family?”
Dating’s a Beast Cycle - Drunken Owl
Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.
Jules Maes Saloon, Seattle, WA 98108
October 13, 2017
SPOOKY! Seattle Playwrights Salon
Seattle, WA
October 2016
South Street Players
Spring Lake, NJ
October 2009
Acme Comedy Theatre
Hollywood, CA
October 6 - 8, 2016
East High Drama TERRIFYING TALES!
Featuring MEET THE FAMILY
Anchorage, AK
Bigfoot by Moonlight
Spartan Theatre
Spokane, WA 99224
October 25 - 27, 2019
“An artist struggles to follow her dreams, but finds herself up against the "divine plan." Divine Intervention is a comedic examination of the messages society gives to women and the struggle to not just succeed, but succeed when up against the idea of a crippling cosmic power forcing one into an unwanted, predetermined fate.”
March 5 & 8, 2020
Nomad Theatre Company
McLean County Arts Center
Bloomington, IL
The Enigma
MONOLOGUE
“Some philosophies tout that we have the power to reshape the universe with our thoughts. But what if it goes wrong?”
Thorpedo Productions at
The Public House Theater, Chicago, IL
May 2017
The Grand Delusion
ONE ACT - Society tells us to cast off our fear and follow our dreams. It tells us that the ability to change our fate lies in our own hands. But what if you're really bad at the thing you love? A wry tragedy of one man who should never have quit his day job.
The Director’s Cut Theatre Company
Monday, February 28, 2022
the Southwark Playhouse
London, UK
Hitchers
co-written by Kate danley & Joe Purcell
“Very funny, very original and horridly amusing.” -Alvina Ruprecht, Capitol Critics' Circle
Acme Comedy Theatre
Bravo Company
January 31, 2009
December 9-19, 2015
Cone Man Running
Five Minute Mile Festival
Queensbury Theatre
Houston, Texas
Summer Shorts
August 2-11, 2017
The Phoenix Theatre
Edmonds, WA
August 16-25, 2017
Thumbnail Theatre
Snohomish, WA
10-MIN SHORT
“We all know job interviews are an exercise in white lies, but what if people spoke the truth? Mary and John are about to get honest about what's really going on.”
Spokane Civic Theatre
June 15 - 18, 2023
Spokane, WA
Killer Dating Scene
Somewhere Out There is a collection of 30 short films written by members of The Writers Club, performed by members of The Actors Club and directed by members of The Directors Club, as part of the end of term films for Spring 2021.
directorscuttheatre.co.uk
Featuring my piece Killer Dating Scene.
Kill Them With Kindness
SHORT - They say laughter is the best medicine. Sometimes it's not.
January 25 - February 24, 2019
2019 Snow Dance Ten Minute Comedy Festival!
Racine, WI
SATURDAY JUNE 2, 2018
Making a Difference: Perspective & Power
IT's Studio 339 @ Central School
Lake Charles, LA
NW10 Festival
March 2018
MONOLOGUE
Penny Dryer is out on a blind date. Will this old-fashioned bookworm find love?
Art from the Heart is an evening of short stories by artists, sharing their art through their heart. Funny, dark and poetic. Stories told are based in truth, from personal experiences, to meaningful messages, questions and provocations, we share themes of our human experience the inspiration behind all creation and story-telling. All pieces created and shared are by members of our professional artistic community – The Directors Club, The Actors Club and The Writers Club. Produced by Director’s Cut Theatre Company – directorscuttheatre.co.uk
Art from the Heart originally played Friday, 9th April, 2021 and can now be viewed on YouTube. My piece, Old Fashioned Girl, is second in the lineup and starts at the 5:15 mark.
The Realtor
May 25 - 26, 2024
GOD, ZOMBIES, AND OTHER PHANTASMS
Drunken Owl Theatre
JULES MAES SALOON
5919 AIRPORT WAY S
SEATTLE, WA 98108
June 2 - 12, 2016
October 20, 2019
March 13, 2021
March 11 &12, 2023
March, 21, 2008
Hair of the Mangy Dog
The McCadden Place Theater
Los Angeles, CA 90038
“Some of the biggest laughs of the night were found in Kate Danley’s “Staging”...This One Act kept the action whizzing by, barely giving us time to catch our breaths between laughs.”
“Songs and theater references abound in this very funny play.”
“The highlights of the evening were Two Owls under a New Moon by Kate Danley, directed by Hannah Lund and performed by Chelsey Sheppard and Skye Farrell. It drew inspiration from the nonsense poem the Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear.”
True Meaning of Christmas
HOLIDAY SHORT - Four mall employees try to plan the theme for the Santa's Corner picture area. But in this world of crass commercialism, will they be able to figure out the true meaning of Christmas? Probably not.
December 4-6, 10-12, 2015
The Willits Community Theatre
Willits, CA
Rising Sun Performance Company’s
A VERY HOLIDAY UNDER REHEARSED!
December 6, 2015
A Project of A.R.T./New York,
Brooklyn, New York
HOLIDAY SHORT
In a world where the Easter Bunny is trying to declare war on Christmas, only one man can save us! A snow man. Get ready this December for THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS!
December 8–15, 2023
Theatre33 at Willamette Univeristy
Salem, OR