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Baked with Love

One Act Play Festival

Foothills Arts Council

September 19 - 21, 2025


Shorts & Sketches


Baked With Love

10-MIN SHORT

This criminal might be one tough cookie, but once Mrs. Maple is done with him, he'll crumble like yesterday's biscuits.


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!”

NW10: SWEET 16 (AND A LIL SALTY)

APRIL 5 - 14, 2024

Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR

KDC Theatre
Location: Drayton Arms Theatre
153 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 0LJ
Dates & time: Tues 25 & Wed 26 June 2024, 7.30pm

Stillwater Short  Play Festival August 10 and 11

August 10 & 11, 2024


Dating’s a Beast Cycle

Three short pieces - Meet the Family, Mystery Date, and Dating Sucks - combined in one cycle to be interspersed throughout an evening of short plays.

Dating’s a Beast Cycle - Drunken Owl
Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.
Jules Maes Saloon, Seattle, WA 98108

 

Meet The Family

“Sue likes the bad boys, but what happens when she starts bringing real monsters home to meet the family?”

 
East High Drama TERRIFYING TALES! Featuring MEET THE FAMILY October 6 - 8, 2016

October 6 - 8, 2016
East High Drama TERRIFYING TALES!
Featuring MEET THE FAMILY
Anchorage, AK

 

October 13, 2017
SPOOKY! Seattle Playwrights Salon
Seattle, WA

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October 2016
South Street Players
Spring Lake, NJ

October 2009
Acme Comedy Theatre
Hollywood, CA

 

Sue is the worst about dating men who are absolute monsters. Who will she bring home to meet her family this time?

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, 2020Nomad Theatre Company McLean County Arts Center Bloomington, IL

March 5 & 8, 2020

Nomad Theatre Company
McLean County Arts Center
Bloomington, IL

April 13, 2025

Drunken Owl Theatre
Seattle, WA


Hitchers

co-written by Kate danley & Joe Purcell

What happens when two serial killers pick each other up on a lonely road? Sometimes the best friendships are forged in the most unusual circumstances...

“Very funny, very original and horridly amusing.”

-Alvina Ruprecht,
Capitol Critics' Circle

Acme Comedy Theatre Bravo CompanyJanuary 31, 2009

Acme Comedy Theatre

Bravo Company

January 31, 2009

October 31, 20233

The 5th Annual Bite Sized Theatrical Spooktacular
The Producer’s Club

New York, NY

Summer Shorts
August 2-11, 2019
The Phoenix Theatre
Edmonds, WA

August 16-25, 2019
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

Art from the Heart

Director's Cut Theatre

24 April, 2022

Southwark Playhouse, London, UK


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.

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Featuring my piece Killer Dating Scene.


Kill Them With Kindness

SHORT - They say laughter is the best medicine. Sometimes it's not.

Over Our Head Players

January 25 - February 24, 2019

2019 Snow Dance Ten Minute Comedy Festival!

Racine, WI

Cone Man Running

March 28 - April 13, 2019

Five Minute Mile Festival

Houston, Texas


Kings of the World

Jeff and Bud have all the solutions to the world's problems... if only they could get off their bar stools.

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SATURDAY JUNE 2, 2018

Making a Difference: Perspective & Power

IT's Studio 339 @ Central School
Lake Charles, LA

NW10 Festival March 2018

NW10 Festival
March 2018


Lovey Dovey

John and Mary love each other. They love everything about each other. But perhaps you can take lovey dovey talk too far.


Margie’s Interview

The local elementary school needs a new arts and crafts teacher. A local lumberjack needs a new job.


The only defense against the mindless horde is the most mindless of holidays…

February 13, 2010

Bravo Company
Acme Comedy Theatre
Los Angeles, CA

Five Minute Mile Theatre on the Run Holidays

February 15 - March 1, 2025

Five Minute Mile
Theatre on the Run Holidays

Houston, TX


The Realtor

A lonely woman searches for a house, but a magical realtor is about to introducer her to her heart’s home.

May 25 - 26, 2024

GOD, ZOMBIES, AND OTHER PHANTASMS

Drunken Owl Theatre

JULES MAES SALOON
5919 AIRPORT WAY S
SEATTLE, WA 98108


The Situation

A nuclear non-proliferation summit is going so well until Randall shows up...


Drunken Owl Theater

Jules Maes Saloon
Seattle, WA 98108

June 24 & 25, 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.
— HamletHub
Songs and theater references abound in this very funny play.
— The Newtown Bee

Staging

AT THE

THE RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN
EVENING OF ONE ACTS

MARCH 8-30, 2024


Stiff Upper Lip

The year is 1890. Amelia's house has been hit by a tornado. Or was it a freight train? As Amelia and her butler, George, spar, this short, dark comedy grapples with the blinders of society, the lies we tell, and the lies we accept.


True Love

"If you love it so much, why don't you marry it?" Well, Sue has decided to do just that.


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.
— Drama in the Hood

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.

Theatre33’s HOLIDAY SHORTS

December 8–15, 2023

Salem, OR

December 4-6, 10-12, 2015  The Willits Community Theatre Willits, CA

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

Rising Sun Performance Company’s
A VERY HOLIDAY UNDER REHEARSED!
December 6, 2015

A Project of A.R.T./New York,
Brooklyn, New York

December 15, 2024
Drunken Owl at Jules Maes Saloon
Seattle, WA

Theatrical Shenanigans

12 Plays of Christmas Special

Broadcast
22nd December 2024


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

December 15, 2024
Drunken Owl at Jules Maes Saloon
Seattle, WA