Early career Ward worked as an economic researcher at
London's South Korean Embassy before she became a comedian.
Comedy In 2006, Ward won the
Time Out's Critic's Choice award for Best Newcomer and wrote
Take A Break Tales – exaggerated adaptations of women's magazine stories – in which she appeared with
Neil Edmond,
Emma Fryer and
Isy Suttie at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The next year she co-wrote
Psister Psycho, a musical about a killer robotic lesbian nun, with
Martin White for the 2007 Edinburgh Festival which was a cult hit and was nominated for the Chortle Award for Best Full Length Show 2008. She was also a regular member of
Robin Ince's
Book Club where she performed under the guise of Andy McNabb, Heather Mills McCartney, Adam Ant and David Bowie. She has performed five solo stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. Ward has written for many comedy radio shows including
The News Quiz,
The Now Show,
The Lee Mack Show,
Look Away Now,
Anna and Katy and
Day the Music Died. She has written for TV shows including
Horrible Histories, ''
Harry Hill's TV Burp, Not Going Out and Mongrels''. Ward created the
BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show
Dilemma, which ran for four series 2011-15 and was hosted by
Sue Perkins. Danielle appeared several times as a guest on the show.
Music Ward also hosts "Ward and White's Karaoke Circus", a live music karaoke night at the Edinburgh Festival, The 100 Club and its regular home of The Albany. An experienced bass player she has released three albums with Cardiff indie band
The Loves. She plays guitar in Brighton indie band
The Super Wolfgang.
Podcasts Alongside
David Reed, Ward co-presented the weekly
Absolute Radio film
podcast,
Film Fandango. The series began in November 2011. From November 2012, Ward has been in
Phyllida Lloyd's all-female-cast stage production of
Julius Caesar. In her absence from the Film Fandango podcast, her place was taken by comedian
Marek Larwood, though she did appear alongside Reed and Larwood in the final episode of 2012 (episode 60). Ward also hosted the
Sony Award-winning comedy panel-show podcast
Do the Right Thing in addition to devising and writing the comedy panel show
Dilemma on BBC Radio 4. From 2017 Ward presented a podcast series called
Any Stupid Questions where basic or perhaps silly questions people might be embarrassed to ask are posed to expert guests.
Script writer Ward is known for her dark and idiosyncratic writing and was the holder of the
BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary in 2006–2007. Ward featured on
Newswipe with Charlie Brooker for
BBC Four. For children, Ward has written on
Danger Mouse and
Minnie The Minx. In March 2023 Ward was announced to have gained a place on the BBC Writersroom pilot scheme. She wrote episodes of
In the Long Run and
Brassic. In December 2023, filming began on a Ward-scripted comedy series for
BBC Three entitled
Daddy Issues and starring
David Morrissey and
Aimee Lou Wood. The show premiered on 15 August 2024. ==Personal life==