About me
Tate Hanyok is a director-writer-producer focused on female-driven comedy and young adult stories. Tate’s AFF winning feature script Sex APPeal, which she produced alongside American High as a Hulu Original, premiered January 2022. The indie feature film Love and Baseball which she both produced and adapted from the play of the same name, was released on HBO Max spring of 2022.
As a writer, Tate has been hired to adapt two novels into motion pictures. A female-driven soccer romance for PictureStart and a Catholic school whodunnit for Wattpad. She’s also written feature rom com The Pet Nup and family dramady Family Week for Mucho Mas.
Tate was named one of the AFF & Moviemaker Top 25 Writers to Watch and one of the Top 100 Emerging Writers on the Young and Hungry List. She hails from Virginia where her multi-hyphenate career began on the stage. Tate is driven to lift all dreamers, doers, and empower the underestimated.