bio

Kate Zasowski is a queer writer/comedian originally from Rochester, NY who lives in Los Angeles. Her work centers on finding humor within LGBTQ issues, feminism, and mental illness. She is represented by APA.

In 2022, Kate cowrote the episode “Playing House” in the second season of Big Shot (Disney+). She brings years of writers room experience along with positive energy and silly yet grounded joke and story pitches.

Kate currently writes for the creative production company YZ Productions. In summer 2020, Kate wrote jokes for NBC Olympics ICYMI, a daily Olympics recap show on Snapchat. She’s been a writers’ assistant on I Love That For You (Showtime), Spitting Image (Britbox), Atypical (Netflix), Busy Tonight (E!), The Fix (Netflix) and Laff Mobb's Laff Tracks (truTV). She also assisted writer/director Kelly Oxford on her feature film debut Pink Skies Ahead.

Kate co-writes and performs in the monthly show SELF HELP ME with Jenny Yang every second Thursday at the Dynasty Typewriter, also featured at SF Sketchfest and Netflix is a Joke Fest. She co-hosted the queer comedy podcast Straight Guys with Caitlin Reese, where the two roast straight and gay culture with a special guest. She also produced the monthly online stand-up show Comedy Crossing, which took place inside the video game Animal Crossing. New York Magazine’s Vulture called Comedy Crossing “the most joyful live comedy right now.”

Kate is a recipient of the Upright Citizen's Brigade Diversity Scholarship, where she has completed the Improv and Sketch programs. She does stand-up around the country and has performed at the New York City Comedy Festival and Portland Queer Comedy Festival. She performs in LA with her improv team Pretty Ugly, a house team at the Pack Theater with shows every first and third Sunday! Kate also writes for Brother HQ, TXT Stories, CollegeHumor, Reductress, and McSweeney’s.