Kalen Gorman, who produced interviews and different behind-the-scenes content material for Ryan Murphy’s Glee, leisure that generated a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and different platforms, has died. She was 59.
Gorman died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Middle in Los Angeles after a battle with breast most cancers, a publicist introduced.
Gorman collaborated with actors, hosts, present creators, manufacturing crew and others on scripted and improvised advertising shoots that made for greater than 300 items of content material for each episode of Glee throughout its first 5 seasons (2009-14).
“I all the time thought, God, for the followers who love this present, that is what they need to see,” she stated in an interview in April. “They need to really feel like they’re a part of it.”
Gorman later produced behind-the-scenes content material for the 2017 first season of Murphy’s anthology sequence Feud, starring Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis and Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford, and for Showtime’s Homeland.
Born in Toronto and raised in Los Angeles, Gorman started her profession helping legendary publicist Pat Kingsley at PMK Public Relations earlier than shifting into tv in 1999 as a senior expertise govt on Martin Quick’s 1999-2000 syndicated discuss present.
She then had segment-producer roles at NBCUniversal (on exhibits together with The Weakest Hyperlink), E! and Hurwitz Artistic earlier than becoming a member of Fox in 2008. She labored on Bones, The Mindy Challenge and Brooklyn 9-9 earlier than specializing in Glee.
Extra just lately, Gorman labored for All3Media America, Discovery and Studio71, the place she exec produced and directed the Snapchat sequence Keepin’ It Actual With Keke Palmer, Step by Step With Matt Steffanina and Worst Firsts With Brittany Furlan and the Fb Watch present Women First With Grace Helbig.
She additionally co-created the VH1 sequence You Rock With …
She has no survivors. Her brother Alexx Van Dyne, an animation author, died in Might 2023 at age 61. One other brother, Kerry Gorman, died in 1992 at age 37.