Kate McCallum is passionate about consciousness, creativity, innovation, media and the arts and their effect on culture and society.  She has had the good fortune of being employed in the creative arts and entertainment industries for over twenty-six years. After graduating with a degree in Communications and Music from Western Michigan University, she began her career in the business as a page at ABC where she worked on such shows as MORK AND MINDY, TAXI, GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE EMMY AWARDS and THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS. She trained as a script supervisor then spent five years gaining experience in production while freelancing on several music videos, independent films and a variety of TV projects as Script Supervisor, AD, Sound and Production Coordinator. Kate landed a job with the Executive Producers of the primetime comedy GIMME A BREAK then started working at Universal Studios with various Executive Producer/Writers on such hour long dramatic series as THE EQUALIZER, CRIME STORY, MIAMI VICE, THE HUMAN FACTOR, and half hour sit-coms such as CHARLES IN CHARGE and TOGETHER WE STAND gaining extensive experience in the process of primetime comedy and dramatic series production.

In ’92 Kate began a long-term affiliation with WESTERN SANDBLAST at Paramount Television where she worked as a Development Assistant to primaries/writers Dan Pyne (MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE 2004, SUM OF ALL FEARS, ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, DOC HOLLYWOOD, PACIFIC HEIGHTS, MIAMI VICE, etc.), John Mankiewicz (THE DIVISION, THIEVES, THE MARSHAL, MIAMI VICE, etc.) and director/producer, Aaron Lipstadt (THE DIVISION, THE MARSHAL, MIAMI VICE, ANDROID, etc.). At Western, Kate was involved with the ABC dramatic series THE MARSHAL and several hour-long network pilots. In ’96 Kate’s first made-for-television movie, WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU? aired on NBC, which she optioned as a life rights story and produced with Alexander/Enright and Associates (credited as Producer, Kate Rubin). Promoted to V.P. Creative Affairs/Producer at Western, Kate created their long-form division and went on to set up movies at UPN (MARS-TV) and Showtime (THE BIG LIE and SECRET SOCIETY in co-production with Diane Keaton which became THE EMMETT TILL story with The Tom Lynch Co., and the late Gregory Hines who was attached as director), in addition to optioning a one hour series to Paramount which she co-created (GODDESSES). Kate then returned to Universal and worked as with Writer/Producer/ Showrunner, Michael Chernuchin in development at NBC Universal Television. Prior to that she worked as his development/research assistant on the NBC television series LAW & ORDER.

She left the studios in 2006 to join the core staff of the HARMONY CHANNEL, where she served as their VP Programming and was instrumental in the launch of this innovative music visual VoD channel on Comcast to over 9 million homes. Her responsibilities included artist’s relations, acquisitions, licensing and programming of hundreds of hours of content, assisting in channel branding development and producing interstial and promotional content, as well as business development and research. 

Kate returned to her roots in music when she accepted a position with the Los Angeles Opera to serve as their Board Liaison and Executive Administrator to the General Director Placido Domingo.  While working with this world class arts organization Kate gained great experience and insight into arts administration and the creative process of producing this global art form with some of the top artists in the opera world.   

After two and a half seasons with the opera, Kate turned her attention to evolving both the transmedia company she founded, Bridge Arts Media, LLC and the c3: Center for Conscious Creativity.  As an independent producer/writer/consultant Kate has worked as a freelance media and script consultant to several clients with a specialty in transmedia development and rights acquisitions and has sold, develops and produces transmedia content including; websites, books, TV series and long-form, documentary, feature projects -- including two screenplays, as well as music visual content, audio and music content.  Bridge Arts Media launched a boutique arts and music label called ART OF SOUND with composer/musician/music producer No'a Winter Lazerus andand recently formed a partnership with Unlimited Publishing to create a line of books. 

The c3: Center for Conscious Creativity is a public benefit organization Kate co-founded with Philip Horvath in an effort to create an educational research and think tank collective of artists, media-makers, futurists and consciousness experts to examine and explore the power of the arts and media on society and culture.  The c3 launched a social networking platform www.consciouscreatives.net in March of 2009 and produced a symposium/arts event in June 2010 called c3: VisionLAB: STATE OF THE ARTS in collaboration with the LA Opera and the LA Citywide Ring Festival.  In November, 2009, Kate Executive Produced an event called IMMERSE IN THE FUTURE:  Arts, Media and Entertainment in the 21st Century with GATE: Global Association of Transformational Entertainment in association with IMERSA: Immersive Media Entertainment Research and Science Association and the Creative Visions Foundation featuring keynote speaker futurist, Jerome Glenn.  Kate was invited to Chair and create a Global Arts and Media Node for The Millennium Project to both contribute research and information for their annual publication, THE STATE OF THE FUTURE report, and to disseminate the report to the entertainment and artistic community.  Kate was awarded a 2010 Fellowship with the Society for New Communications Research and was awarded a Commendation of Merit and Co-Creation for the work with the Millennium Project. 

As a journalist with an avid interest in the creative process, Kate served as a staff writer for scr(i)pt magazine on the bi-monthly column she created titled “THE GREAT IDEA.” This column featured Q&A interviews with feature film and television writers and examines the creative and the business development process of media; specifically feature films or television content from concept to screen. THE GREAT IDEA: CONSCIOUSNESS also runs as a web column on www.consciouscreativity.org.  

Kate has been invited to serve as a guest speaker, workshop teacher and panelist at several prominent screenwriting conferences and has presented such workshops as NAVIGATING TELEVISION: OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS ON THE SMALL SCREEN at the Sante Fe Writer’s Conference in 2003 as well at the 2004 Great American Pitch Fest, CREATING CROSS MARKET CONTENT for the Southern California Writers’ Conference 2004, as a panelist at the conference, Consciousness and Media, sponsored by The Institute of Noetic Sciences in May 2004, and in September 2005 she was one of ten presenters at The Institute For Global Transformation: The Future of Consciousness where she presented on behalf of c3: Center for Conscious Creativity.  She presented THE TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER OF ART AND MEDIA, and HOLOGRAPHIC CREATIVITY: TRANSMEDIA DEVELOPMENT forThe Reel Inspiration Conference, Tucson, AZ, in October 2005, and in March of 2006 she was invited to facilitate a think-tank dialogue ARTS, MEDIA, CREATIVITY AND THE NEW ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMERS forThe 2nd Enlightenment Conference which was sponsored by the World Council of Affairs and Communities of the Future in Columbia, South Carolina.  Kate Executive Produces, Hosted and Moderated a panel for the 2010 STATE OF THE ARTS symposium held in LA In 2010.   She served on a panel for the IMMERSIVE TECH summit held in LA, produced and moderated a panel of Positive Media for the LEADERS CAUSING LEADERS conference in Long Beach, presented at the SNCR annual conference and served as a Judge for the HOLLYWOOD, HEALTH AND SOCIETY "Sentinel for Health Awards" at USC.  Upcoming, Kate will be speaking at the IONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Transformational Media in San Francisco and at the WORLD FUTURE SOCIETY CONFERENCE in Vancouver, B.C. in July 2011.  

In an effort to examine the future of media and storytelling, c3 partnered with THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WRITERS CONFERENCE, and produced a conference in Los Angeles; NEW STORY PARADIGM AND THE FUTURE OF CONTENT, October 2005.  Kate served as the Associate Director for this conference which investigated and promoted information and ideas about; emergent technology and new media, convergence think, and consciousness, as well as the business and craft of writing and selling media content creation.

She is currently serves on the Board of Advisors to the House of the Children, a non-profit agency based in Peru www.houseofthechildren.org, and Vortex Immersive Media, a visionary immersive venue and content entertainment company www.vorteximmersive.com.  Kate is a member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, the World Future Studies Foundation and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Television Executive peer group and has served as a judge for the Emmy Awards, and the ATAS College Television awards.

Kate also expresses herself creatively as a musician and professional photographer who specializes in hand-painted portraiture and has had her work shown and published in various publications.  She is based in a live/work loft space at the Brewery Artist Colony in Los Angeles, Calfornia and has offices at Los Angeles Center Studios.