Founder - Producer

Kate has been working in the entertainment industry for over sixteen years, gaining experience at major agencies, studios, and production companies across development, production, casting, sales, marketing and publicity. In each position, she has enjoyed subverting the expectation of her “female perspective.”  She currently lives in LA with her husband, Eric Charles, a senior film executive at Sony Pictures…who also happens to be incredible at cooking, cleaning, and doing the laundry.

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Kate most recently served as SVP, Film Development for private equity financier SK Global (ANYONE BUT YOU, CRAZY RICH ASIANS) overseeing the development of smaller independently financed films and larger studio films alike.  These included an adaptation of the book HIERARCHIES with Luckychap producing and Lynne Ramsay writing to direct, and BACCARAT MACHINE with Awkwafina starring and Jake Szymanski set to direct, amongst others.

Prior to SKG, Kate partnered with Blake Lively in 202​0 to help launch Lively’s production company, B for Effort, along with the non-profit program, Group Effort Initiative. Together they built a slate of film & television projects focused on “fun, smart, and unexpected” stories and characters, often told through a feminine lens. This slate included three films they set up at Netflix based on IP: LADY KILLER, a comic by Joelle Jones, WE USED TO LIVE HERE, a Reddit horror post, and DARK DAYS AT THE MAGNA CARTA, a short story by Michael Paisley.

​F​rom 2016-2020, Kate worked at STX and oversaw a range of films each year through every stage of development and production. There she focused on pushing female-driven narratives forward, working on fourteen produced films during her nearly four years at the company. These included SECOND ACT, I FEEL PRETTY, ADRIFT, MOLLY’S GAME, and A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS among others. Her last project at STX was overseeing the production and release of the box office hit HUSTLERS.

She previously worked at CAA and Good Universe, where she helped develop such films as BLOCKERS, DON’T BREATHE, NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING and THE DISASTER ARTIST. She started her career interning across various companies and departments on the Sony Pictures lot, including Laura Ziskin Productions and Screen Gems, while she was a student at Loyola Marymount University.