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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 seven 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 sorts communicate their ideas in print and video, Kate moved to Los Angeles to pursue television writing full-time. She got her first staff job on NCIS, the most popular drama in the world and wrote two episodes during season 17: “Musical Chairs,” about a murder in a Navy band and “Schooled,” about a for-profit college scamming sailors for their GI bill money. Both were among the highest-rated episodes of the show in years. And both were based on real-life things, as Kate loves to do.

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