Christopher Storer, the creator, executive producer, director and co-showrunner of FX’s hit comedy The bearhas signed with WME for representation.
Storer became one of the most in-demand comedy creators following the critical and commercial success of The bear, which became the hottest comedy series of the summer. I’ve heard that a team of WME agents — including Ari Emanuel, CEO of WME parent company Endeavor, whose brother Rahm and Storer share a Chicago connection — were involved in courting Storer, who developed and sold The bear while at UTA. I heard this all came down today and Storer’s IMDb Pro page has already been updated to reflect the agency change.
fx The bearstreaming on Hulu follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a young gourmet chef who returns to Chicago after his brother’s suicide to run his family’s sandwich shop.
Chicago native Storer wrote and directed the pilot for The bear, and executive producing and co-showruns the series with Joanna Calo. The comedy has already been renewed for a second season.
Before creating The bear, Storer was an executive producer and director at Hulu’s Rami and produced Bo Burnham’s feature film Eighth class. He has also executive produced/directed a number of comedy television specials, including Bo Burnham’s Make Happy, Whitmer Thomas’ The Golden, Jerrod Carmichael: 8, Ramy Youssef: Feelings and Hasan Minjah: Homecoming King. Storer will continue to be represented by Kaplan/Perrone and attorney Erik Hyman at Paul Hastings LLP.