Made in Taiwan and raised in New York City — with pit stops in Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles, and the Midwest — D.T. “Danny” Yang is a screenwriter, prose writer, and stand-up comic. In 2025, his work placed multiple times at BlueCat, PAGE, and the Austin Film Festival, with a focus on comedy, sci-fi, and thrillers.

He created the sci-fi horror fiction podcast The Polybius Protocol and performs stand-up and improv (as “Danny”) at clubs throughout the NYC comedy scene — with the prerequisite open mics and “yes, ands” from his UCB training that go beyond acceptable human tolerances.

Screenplays ANd Honors (2025)

The Polybius Protocol (Fiction Podcast — Sci-Fi / Adventure / Dark Comedy)
A Portland substitute teacher stumbles onto her past as a Cold War test subject in a mind-control experiment disguised as an arcade game with one rare side effect: access to a parallel dimension where a rogue AI prepares to invade reality.

  • Austin Film Festival 2025 — Second Rounder (Fiction Podcast)

  • BlueCat TV Screenplay Contest 2024 - Quarterfinalist "Polybius" (Hour-Long  Pilot Category)

A to B (Feature — Drama / Crime Thriller)
After a mob deal goes wrong, a young bagman winds up with a mysterious number that Russian and Italian syndicates will kill for — forcing him to crack its meaning before his number’s up.

  • Austin Film Festival 2025 — Second Rounder (Drama Feature)

  • PAGE Awards 2025 — Quarterfinalist (Drama)

  • BlueCat — Previous Semifinalist

The Yellow King (Hour-Long Pilot — Sci-Fi / Psychological Horror)
A VA psychologist is tasked with treating a veteran whose shattered mind may hold the truth about a Vietnam mission to uncover a Lovecraftian god — or reveal he is the god himself.

  • BlueCat TV Screenplay Competition 2025 — Semifinalist

GOLIATH (Feature, sci-fi/adventure/horror)
Trapped in an ancient cavern guarded by a giant entity, a military contractor and a band of villagers uncover a far greater threat—hidden beyond the portal it protects.

Adapted from the short story by D.T. Yang - "Goliath"

  • PAGE Awards 2025 — Quarterfinalist (Sci-Fi/Horror Feature)

  • Launch Pad Prose Competition 2024 — Quarterfinalist (Short Story, original “Goliath”)

 

Auxiliary Police (Half-Hour Pilot — Single-Cam Comedy)
A satirical comedy about a suburban volunteer police force — led by an out-of-work musical-theatre actress — tasked with “keeping order” after gerrymandering leaves the town without any real cops.

  • BlueCat TV Screenplay Competition 2025 — Semifinalist

“Danny's Stand-up Comedy sucks.”

- Mom

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