Daan Windhorst writes for television, film and theatre.

He wrote DE KUTHOER – released internationally as The Columnist – and the NPO3 webseries LOCKED OUT. He stood at he cradle of the Storytel Original DIT IS HOE JE DOODGAAT and the VPRO series SUSPICIOUS MINDS and ZES DATES. He wrote the young adult science fiction thriller REVOLUTIONS for the Nationale Theater. Together with Lucas de Waard, he provided the script for the hiphop fairytale WATSKEBURT!?, a puppet musical about the Dutch rap group De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig.

In 2016 Daan published the short story collection GIFJES with Nijgh & van Ditmar, with funny gloomy predictions of the future. Daan is the writer of the new NPO-series BOVENSLOTERS which will be released in 2026.