Cheryl Horner

Cheryl Horner McDonough is a Florida native who lived and worked all over the world from Atlanta, GA to Sydney, Australia to Bucharest, Romania before settling in New York City where she founded Gigantic! Productions in 2001. Cheryl is now a two-time Emmy Award winner for her work on MTV's "True Life" series and the documentary special "Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word." She is the recipient of multiple Prism Awards for documentaries about drug addiction, a Peabody Award for her work on an MTV sexual health campaign, and has twice been nominated for GLAAD Awards. Cheryl produced the documentary film "BEAN," which took the prize for Best Documentary Feature at 2017's Big Apple Film Festival in New York, Best of Fest at AmDocs in Palm Springs and was nominated for a 2018 Daytime Emmy Award. She created the Netflix original series "Marching Orders," and was Series Director for Katie Couric's six-part Nat Geo documentary series "America Inside Out," for which she received two Front Page awards. "Parkland Rising" is her upcoming documentary feature. Cheryl is married to cyber-security guru Bart McDonough, and they have three teenage children.