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Playwright - Kate Danley

Kate Danley is a USA TODAY Bestselling author and thirty-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 a million books globally. 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. 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 nationally and internationally. Her first full-length play, BUILDING MADNESS, won the prestigious 2016 Panowski Playwriting Competition. POWER won Best of the Renegade Theatre Festival. KINGS OF THE WORLD won 3rd place in the 10x10x10 Festival. She is one of the original co-founders of the Seattle Playwrights Salon. 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. Read her other plays on the New Play Exchange.

Theatre Review: ‘Working for Crumbs’ at Spotlighters Theatre

By: Abigail Dobry, mdtheatreguide.com

Directed by Alanna Kiewe at Spotlighters Theatre, “Working For Crumbs” tells an all-too familiar tale of the ebb and flow of working life in dreaded corporate America. In this play, we meet Grace and Amy as they tirelessly attempt to meet the standards of their vulture-like boss, Helen. The pair suffers through the typical happenings and characters of a working office, including the colleague with horrid perfume and the attractive man who delivers the water cooler refills, all the while loathing their boss who frequently asks, “Girls, what do you do all day?” Playwright Kate Danley is not only a best-selling author with 30 years of experience in theater and film, she is a Towson University theater graduate and a Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts. Danley leaves no crumbs in this jam-packed, lively, and riotous comedy.

Kiewe takes Danley’s work to comical heights, making it perfect for a night of hearty laughs.

The creative minds backstage wove together a cohesive and clever reflection of office life. Every corner of the theater-in-the-round was used purposefully. In particular, the gem was the shadow silhouette of the boss’s private office. Scenic Designer Justin Nepomuceno and Lighting Designer Jaeden Arrington constructed this ingenious space, perfect for those slapstick moments of peril.

Costume Designer Zoe Nowoslawski reflects each character’s persona in their business attire. Clever details include goofy, rubber chicken earrings worn by Oliva Libowitz as Molly (the annoying perfume girl) to Andromeda Bacchus’ intimidatingly stylish red glasses and matching lips as Viviane, another supervisor at the company.

Kathryn Russo and Dominique Solomon portray the work besties, Grace and Amy, with complimentary energy. Russo, riled up with an anxious edge to perform her best work, impresses with her physical comedy, committing wholeheartedly to the scenes. This is balanced by Solomon who calms her partner-in-crime, all the while burying her own worrisome and unpredictable behaviors. The duo is consistently entertaining.

Spotlighters Theatre’s production of “Working For Crumbs” is outrageously fun. Kiewe takes Danley’s work to comical heights, making it perfect for a night of hearty laughs. This show just might leave you rethinking those moments in your own cubicle when you secretly wish that your boss would just drop dead—or at least it will make you second guess snacking on the extra oatmeal raisin cookies in the break room.

Running Time: Two hours and 15 minutes with a 15-minute intermission.

“Working For Crumbs” runs through February 2, 2025 at Spotlighters Theatre, 817 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21202. For more information and to purchase tickets, please go online.

WORKING FOR CRUMBS ​written by Kate Danley directed by Alanna Kiewe Jan 10, 2025 - Feb 2, 2025 Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm; Theatre Thursday at 8pm ( Jan 16, 2025)

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THE STORY: Grace and Amy, two outrageous admins, are living for the crumbs of their soul-sucking jobs. But when calamity strikes and their boss chokes on an oatmeal raisin cookie, it sets off a domino-effect of destruction that brings down the corporate house.

Kate Danley is a USA TODAY Bestselling author and thirty-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.

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