Danielle Frimer writes happy endings for queer women*.

Her plays include P. Pan Et Al. (NJPlay Lab, Stissing Center, Round the Bend and TOSOS at the Flea Theater, upcoming: Garden State New Play Festival), Monarchs (Round the Bend Theatre, Valdez Theatre Conference, Morgan Wixson New Play Fest, upcoming: Threshold Theater), Mariana (Berkshire Theatre Group/Jewish Plays Project, upcoming: Best Short Plays of 2026), a marriage is a story we tell and keep telling (Rosendale Theatre, Village Playwrights, TOSOS, Secret Theatre, Best Short Plays of 2024), ROAM or Julia Caesar in the Metaverse (Syracuse University’s Tepper Semester), The Dishtowel (24/6, Irvington Theatre), Frankie & Wally (Sharon Playhouse, Stissing Center), The Undergrowth (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Between Friends (Brick Theatre, Irvington Theatre’s Playwright Festival), and Honey (CoHo Lab in Portland, Oregon). Screenplays include Safe (with co-writer Fi Connors), and the shorts Sovanna (Netic Studios), Sleep, Made You Look, and Dog Park.

She was a 2023 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and is a member of HOWL Playwrights, a Hudson-Valley new works incubator.

As a conversation designer, she’s created several award-winning interactive audio stories and games for smart speakers, including the Emmy-nominated Esme & Roy (Sesame Street), the Cannes Grand Prix winning Westworld: The Maze (HBO/Kilter Films),  and Bosch: A Detective’s Case (Amazon Studios).

Danielle holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from American Conservatory Theater. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife, Kelty, and their rescue dog, Dory. 

*and other stuff, too.