Kate Botello made her performance debut at a dinner party for her parents’ drunk friends in, Fat Kid in Glasses: Robot Does the Hustle, an interpretive “dance” to the disco non-classic, “A Fifth of Beethoven.” She was eight.

Later in life, in San Francisco, Kate went from being a Senior Desktop Analyst (the day job) and professional Judy Garland impersonator (the night job) to being hired as on-air talent at ZDTV (now G4/TechTV). Her first gig at TechTV was puppeteering and doing the voice talent behind the network’s virtual host, Tilde – for which she and the Virtual Media Team were awarded a Bronze medal in the New York Festival and a Bay Area Emmy Award.

Kate went on to become the cohost and one of the masterminds behind the creation of the live, national daily television show, The Screen Savers, with Leo Laporte. After more than 400 episodes, Kate moved on to work with Adam Sessler as cohost of TechTV’s internationally distributed videogame show, Extended Play.

Kate now resides in Traverse City, where she is half of Traverse City Web Design. The Old Town Playhouse Young Company Summer Performing Arts Camp is the highlight of her year! Kate is currently the co-host of WEIRD NEWS RADIO with Jim Harold. For the rest of Kate's bio, click here.