Kalen Gorman, who produced interviews and other behind-the-scenes content for ’s , entertainment that generated hundreds of millions of views on YouTube and other platforms, has died. She was 59. Gorman died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a battle with breast cancer, a publicist announced.
Gorman collaborated with actors, hosts, show creators, production crew and others on scripted and improvised marketing shoots that created more than 300 pieces of content for every episode of during its first five seasons (2009-14). “I always thought, God, for the fans who love this show, this is what they want to see,” she in an interview in April. “They want to feel like they’re part of it.
” Gorman later produced behind-the-scenes content for the 2017 first season of Murphy’s anthology series , starring Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis and Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford, and for Showtime’s . Born in Toronto and raised in Los Angeles, Gorman began her career assisting legendary publicist at PMK Public Relations before moving into television in 1999 as a senior talent executive on Martin Short’s 1999-2000 syndicated talk show. She then had segment-producer roles at NBCUniversal (on shows including ), E! and Hurwitz Creative before joining Fox in 2008.
She worked on , and before focusing on . More recently, Gorman worked for All3Media America, Discovery and Studio71, where she exec produced and directed the Snapchat series , and and the Facebook Wa.
