Miura Kite is Executive Vice President of Global Television for Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that stands at the intersection of art and activism. Kite oversees Participant’s narrative television slate by identifying, developing, packaging and executive producing high-end properties for premium cable, digital and emerging platforms. She helped develop Ava DuVernay’s EMMY Award® winning limited drama series When They See Us for Netflix, and executive produced two seasons of Noughts + Crosses for BBC1 as well as the docuseries Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey for Netflix. Current projects include Interior Chinatown set up at Hulu and other shows in development at FX, Netflix, AMC and Sky UK.
Prior to Participant, in her role as Head of Development at Playtone, Kite co-produced HBO’s Emmy Award-winning miniseries The Pacific and the HBO Emmy Award-winning film Game Change. She also served as Development Executive on five seasons of HBO’s series Big Love and the miniseries John Adams, as well as films Where the Wild Things Are, Mamma Mia! and Charlie Wilson’s War.
Kite serves on the Advisory Board of WeForShe, a women’s advocacy group that strives to find practical ways to bring about a gender-balanced landscape in television.
