Danielle
Wolff
writer for screen, stage, and new media
“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
—Willa Cather
current projects
DISNFORMATSIA
The massive, global world of political disinformation connects the lives of a Bulgarian teenager working for a shadowy Russian organization, the founder of an American right-wing troll farm, and an ambitious member of the British Parliament brought down by a fake-news scandal, who teams up with a Silicon Valley programmer determined to fight back.
Pilot and bible available
BRILLIANT
After the death of their CEO and patriarch, a secretive family-run business struggles to stay at the top of the cutthroat multi-billion-dollar glitter industry.
Pilot available
Writing and Producing Credits
TELEVISION
- Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac - Battle for Sanctuary
- Marvel Rising, Marvel Television, “Playing with Fire”, “Kamala Khanfidential”
- Tarzan and Jane, Netflix, Season 2
- Marvel Avengers Assemble, Marvel Television,
- Consulting Producer, Season 4; Story Editor, Season 3;
- Writer, Seasons 1-4
- The 4 to 9ers, Hulu Exclusive
- Ultimate Spider-Man, Marvel Television, Seasons 1 and 2
- Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Marvel Television, Season 2
- Lincoln Heights and Kyle XY - ABC Family, Online Story Content
- Rules of Deception - MyNetwork TV, Fox Television
- American Heiress - MyNetwork TV, Fox Television
- Wicked Wicked Games - MyNetwork TV, Fox Television
FILM
- Danielle Casanova, developed with the assistance of the Franco-American Cultural Fund and the Ile-de-France Film Commission
- Moondance International Film Festival
THEATER
- "Huntsville" Radio drama produced by the Radio Theater Project, St. Petersburg, Florida, and broadcast on NPR station WMNF
- “Eating Existentialism” Winner, Tehachapi Playwrights' Festival
- “Weightless” New York premiere at the Producers' Club Theater; Winner, Weisenmeyer National One-Act Play Competition, Attic Theater Ensemble, Los Angeles
- "Kyle XY Continuum” Nominee, Emmy Award for Interactive Media Programming
interactive media
fiction and poetry
- "The Koban" Popcorn Fiction
- "Billy" Popcorn Fiction
- "In Event of Moon Disaster" Chiron Review
- "A Heavy Sleep" Popcorn Fiction
games
- Wiggity Bang Games - "Magic Feather" and "Furt"
- Buffalo Games - "Phone Frenzy"
- Trivial Pursuit
biography
Danielle Wolff is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and playwright. Her credits include Kyle XY Continuum, which was a finalist for an Interactive Media Programming Emmy. She has written for and/or produced numerous Marvel Television series, including Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble, and Guardians of the Galaxy and has previously worked on prime-time dramas Wicked Wicked Games and American Heiress. As a Marvel writer she also scripted the special Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire, now available on Disney XD. Her most recent animation work, Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya can be seen on Sony's Crunchyroll streaming platform.
Danielle currently has several television and feature film projects in development—both live-action and animation—and has had writing residencies with the Ile-de-France Film Commission and the Athens Film Office in Greece, where she is currently developing a television pilot in conjunction with the support of the Cannes Marché du Film.
Stage credits include Weightless, which received its New York premiere at the Producers Club, and was the winner of the playwriting festival at the Attic Theatre in Hollywood and Huntsville, an audio drama produced by Studio 630 and aired on NPR.
Danielle received an MFA from the screenwriting program at UCLA and is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska. She previously worked with Uncommon Repertory Theater and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. She has appeared as a speaker at film festivals and universities in the US, UK, and Greece and has been a panelist at events including WonderCon and AWP.
diplomacy
In addition to her work writing for film and television, Danielle is a writer and scholar in the field of diplomatic studies, with a focus on cultural diplomacy.
She holds a Master's Degree in Global Diplomacy from SOAS at the University of London, and a Graduate Diploma in International Relations from the London School of Economics at the University of London. Her dissertation was titled "Desert and Light: The Crossroads of Foreign Policy and Cultural Diplomacy through the Louvre Abu Dhabi."
Danielle is the founder and managing editor of Culture/Diplomacy, an online publication that explores contemporary issues that sit in the nexus of culture and international politics. She has also written book reviews for the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, the world's leading research journal for the study of diplomacy based at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
