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Chris Emerson

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Kate Torgovnick May is a television writer who’s continually fascinated by people and the strange things that make them tick. She’s especially drawn to unexplored female worlds — the staff lounge of a fertility clinic, an all-female city council, the sugar baby conference circuit. All of her work is grounded in in-depth research, and a desire to understand people’s passions and motivations.

Kate built her career as a journalist, writing about female cab drivers and professional roadies for Jane Magazine (where she was an editor), bike polo players and Jewish tattoo evangelists for The New York Times (where she was a correspondent), and South Korean animators and female politicians of the 1920s for The Atlantic (where she freelances). She spent a year on the road writing the narrative non-fiction book, CHEER!: Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders, which was published by Simon & Schuster. Joyce Carol Oates called it, "a spirited, fascinating, at times disturbing and always absorbing book.” 

The CW agreed. They optioned the book and transformed it into the series HELLCATS. Kate served as Consulting Producer, and the experience opened her eyes to how dramatic series could be built on real-life insights. On the show, Kate learned the ins and outs of television, serving as the writers room’s walking encyclopedia of knowledge. She answered questions including but not limited to: “How old was the oldest college cheerleader you encountered?” (answer: 26) and “What amount of glitter is considered too much?” (answer: no such thing).

After many years at TED Talks, writing special video series (like the Webby award-winning Small Thing, Big Idea,​ directed by Mac Premo and starring Isaac Mizrahi) and helping speakers of all kinds tell their stories in video and print, Kate moved to Los Angeles to pursue television writing full-time. She has since written on CBS's powerhouse series NCIS, penned the Hallmark original movie JINGLE BELLES ROCK, led the creative development for TED TV, and is currently writing and executive producing the Broadway Video/Audible series INTIMATE, about an intimacy coordinator who finally gets her own love story.

Kate is looking for her next opportunity and is excited to talk to you.

 
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