Kate Bunch

Kate Bunch Production Designer

Kate Bunch is an Emmy® nominated Production Designer based out of Los Angeles. She has earned five Art Directors Guild Award nominations and two wins for her work.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bunch's interest in television began at eight years old when her friend's parents got a video camera. It wasn't long before she was spending almost every weekend creating short films with her friend. She used her own bedroom as a stage to try out interesting new furniture ideas, plastering her walls with different arts and crafts and posters as well as transforming a vintage refrigerator into a bureau. Her future as a production designer was sealed.

After graduating with a degree in Fine Arts from Chapman University, Bunch worked on projects at Universal Studios and Disneyland, including Jurassic Park: The Ride and It's A Bug's Life. She also developed an interest in rehabbing dilapidated buildings throughout Los Angeles, fine-tuning her skills.

Bunch loves the wide scope of decisions that need to be made within any given project. Things like figuring out the layout of a space, choosing the paint colors, textures, patterns and making sure the half-eaten burrito on a kitchen counter looks just right. Collaboration is also one of her favorite parts of the job. It is extremely satisfying to assemble a team that enjoys each other and the project they are working on. Surrounding herself with positive, talented people makes the work even that much more enjoyable.

She does her best designing in the evenings when the high energy of the day dies down. She can sit down with a script and imagine the details of the space in which the characters exist. "Using color and architectural design to tell the story is essential, but things really come alive when you start to think about the detail. You can help to define a character through details as small as the bubblegum wrapper on a nightstand."