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Pamela Danforth Yaco’s award-winning 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

“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

Family Time - Produced At Manhattan Theatre Source, Estrogenius Festival 2007

December - Staged Reading for “Hastings Local,” staged reading by Faith Prince (Tony) and Chris Murney, (Emmy), Hastings on-Hudson, New York, Library Benefit. Finalist- Manhattan Theatre Source in the Estrogenius Festival, Produced for the Ingenious Festival - 2009

Abbess - Staged Reading at Tribeca Film Center, Glenn Paris, Directing Producer for the Native Coast Theatre Company, with Jack Wetherall 1999

Isola Femmina - Staged Reading was selected for a 25th-anniversary celebration of Helen Hayes at The Players Club. NYC April 2014

Camp Hoshi- Finalist for The Lark Theatre’s Playwrights’ Week Program in 2015

Between Heaven and Hell the Trial of William Blake - Semi-Finalist at the 2016 National Playwrights Conference. Accepted into the Kenyon Playwrights’ Conference in Gambier, Ohio, June 2016

Briar Hall - Concert Reading at the Players Club, NYC. Directed by Nichole Donje November 2018. Concert Reading- The Town Players of New Canaan, CT. Stage II. Directed by Frank S. Petrilli, September 2017


Yaco’s award winning 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, Women in the Arts & Media Coalition, The Players, NYC, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and the Cambria Writer's Workshop.