Award-winning poet, novelist, and playwright

Pamela Danforth Yaco’s plays have been produced/developed at Theatrelab, NYC, TAPt - The Artists Playground Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse Theatre, Tribeca Film Center, Circle East, Fleetwood Stage with Producing Director-Emmy winning writer, Lewis Arlt, InGenius Festival, The Players, and at Manhattan Theatre Source – “One of the top five off-off-Broadway theatres” – The New York Magazine

Currently mentored by David Kirkpatrick, former president of Paramount Pictures and former production chief at Walt Disney Pictures

“The winner for most grounded in reality, Family Time is my personal favorite of this week's series…Yaco writes some wonderful, witty banter that comes alive.” Talkin’ Broadway…Theatre Reviews by Cindy Pierre

Yaco’s poetry has been published in Ladies and Gentleman: the Hudson Pier Poets and Skidrow Penthouse, Magic Fingers. Awarded First Place in Poetry Kit's 2018 Spring Competition. Yaco has been a featured guest poet at the Neighborhood Playhouse, 22 Below, The Writer’s Voice, the New Year's Day Poetry Marathon, The Poetry Project, NYC, and the Poetry/Spoken Word, Cambria, California. 

Founding Member of the Writers’ Forum, Manhattan Theatre Source, think tank for emerging and established playwrights, NYC.

Current Member of the Dramatists Guild, New York Women in Film & Television, New Play Exchange, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and Story Summit.