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ABOUT

Danny “D.T.” Yang is a New York City based stand-up comedian who made his national debut on episode #742 of the hit podcast Kill Tony and later appeared on Brian Redban’s Secret Show.

He has performed at venues including The Fat Black Pussycat at the Comedy Cellar, The Comic Strip Live, West Side Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, Governor’s Comedy Club, the Addison Improv, and Hyena’s Comedy Club in Dallas.

His comedy blends cultural commentary, personal stories, and quick-hit punchlines, tackling identity and the absurdity of modern life.

As a screenwriter working in elevated genre, Danny blends grounded sci-fi, prestige horror, and comedy through the lens of outsiders in surreal circumstances. In 2025, five of his projects placed in the Austin Film Festival, PAGE, and BlueCat. His short film Hard to Be a God screened at the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco in late 2025.

Screenplay Honors (2025)

The Polybius Protocol (Fiction Podcast — Fiction Podcast Series / Horror–Sci-Fi

In present-day Portland, a substitute teacher discovers that a missing student’s disappearance is tied to a decades-old CIA experiment hidden inside an arcade cabinet. As she digs into her past, she learns she may not just be chasing the program, she is its original test subject.

Based on the urban legend of the 1981 Polybius arcade machine. 

  • Austin Film Festival 2025 — Second Rounder (Fiction Podcast)
  • BlueCat TV Screenplay Contest 2024 - Quarterfinalist "Polybius" (Hour-Long  Pilot Category)

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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

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The Yellow King (Hour-Long Television Pilot / Prestige Horror–Thriller)

A radical death cult seeks to open a passage to Carcosa, the domain of a cosmic entity worshipped as the Yellow King. The only person who knows how to reach it is Ben Callahan, a dementia-stricken Vietnam veteran who once survived a covert mission to the city and never fully returned.
When the FBI recruits a novice psychologist to draw the truth out of him, each therapy session begins to warp reality, revealing that the path to Carcosa may not be a place, but an alternate reality that that may consume the world.

  • BlueCat TV Screenplay Competition 2025 — Semifinalist

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