Danny A. Ledonne (born January 18, 1982) is an American film director and former video game developer. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a professor in Film and Media Arts at American University, served on the board of the Southern Colorado Film Commission, and became the director for the 2015 edition of the festival. He is known for the documentary Playing Columbine, about the controversy surrounding his 2005 video game Super Columbine Massacre RPG!.

In 2025, Ledonne published his debut novel End of the Tracks: Homecoming, a near-future literary fiction set amid societal and environmental collapse.

Ledonne was born in Alamosa, Colorado. He attended Alamosa High School in Colorado. He graduated from school with a 4.0 grade point average and was voted "most likely to succeed" by his peers. He went on to study film at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. It was during his time at college that he discovered a program called RPG Maker, which allowed a developer to create and design their own games for the PC.

Ledonne obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Electronic Media from American University in Washington, D.C. Ledonne also obtained a J.D. from the Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington with a focus on intellectual property law. During law school, he was an editor of the Gonzaga Journal of International Law. He was also the team captain for the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition in trademark law and worked in an immigration law clinic. Later, he worked as an associate attorney on copyright matters for artists and authors.

In 2005, Ledonne released his first and to date only video game, called Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, that replayed the events of the Columbine High School massacre. Ledonne created the game to explore what caused the gunmen to commit the atrocity and to dispel the myths that violent video games had played a role in the massacre. Upon its release, the game was met with heavy criticism from the public and the mainstream media over the subject matter of the RPG, and even led PC World to declare the game #2 on its list of "The 10 Worst Games of All Time."

Ledonne defended the game despite its negative reaction, saying that the story of the attackers resonated with his own experience at school.

"I was an easy target to be picked on, and that started in kindergarten... It was the kind of bullying that most kids who were bullied experienced... When you get pushed every day, and when you are ostracized not once, not twice, but years in and out, your perception of reality is distorted... These things really do warp your understanding and your perception of humanity in some almost irrevocable way.

Upon graduating from college, Ledonne worked on narrative and documentary short films such as Solace, The Unbelievable Truth, The Good Life, Super 7, and Wild Animals, Domesticated Humans (which he wrote and directed). In 2002, he produced and directed a Brickfilm animated adaptation of "Ship of Fools", a cautionary parable of industrial society written from prison by Ted Kaczynski.