Biography
Credits
BIOGRAPHY
Cheryl King is a native Californian, born in Oakland, raised in Reno, Nevada and moved to Southern California in 1978. With a background in finance and aided by a stroke of luck, she was able to begin her career in television in 1978 at Gower studios in Hollywood, working for World Stage, a studio and equipment rental company. She then moved to KCET Television, the Los Angeles PBS station as a Unit Coordinator on the COSMOS Series, with Carl Sagan. It was there that she met David Kennard, who was a producer on the same series. Cheryl worked on various additional productions as a KCET Unit Manager, including RAISIN IN THE SUN, with Danny Glover and THE LAST OF MRS. LINCOLN, with Ellen Burstyn.
After moving to San Francisco in 1989, she worked briefly at KQED, the San Francisco PBS station, on assorted productions. After re-uniting with David Kennard in Mill Valley, she began to work part time for InCA and came on board full time in 1981 with THE HEART OF HEALING. Since that time, she has production managed many productions such as AMELIA EARHARDT’S LAST FLIGHT, THE PROMISE OF PLAY, 2001: HAL’S LEGACY, WINE FOR THE CONFUSED, ONE BITE OF THE APPLE, THE POWER OF THE SUN, THE FORGIVENESS PROJECT, San Francisco Symphony’s KEEPING SCORE: TCHAIKOVSKY’S 4th SYMPHONY, & KEEPING SCORE: BEETHOVEN’S ‘EROICA’, STRAVINSKY’S ‘RITE OF SPRING & AARON COPLAND and the AMERICAN SOUND.
Ms. King also acts as general Business Manager for InCA Productions.
Cheryl King is a native Californian, born in Oakland, raised in Reno, Nevada and moved to Southern California in 1978. With a background in finance and aided by a stroke of luck, she was able to begin her career in television in 1978 at Gower studios in Hollywood, working for World Stage, a studio and equipment rental company. She then moved to KCET Television, the Los Angeles PBS station as a Unit Coordinator on the COSMOS Series, with Carl Sagan. It was there that she met David Kennard, who was a producer on the same series. Cheryl worked on various additional productions as a KCET Unit Manager, including RAISIN IN THE SUN, with Danny Glover and THE LAST OF MRS. LINCOLN, with Ellen Burstyn.
After moving to San Francisco in 1989, she worked briefly at KQED, the San Francisco PBS station, on assorted productions. After re-uniting with David Kennard in Mill Valley, she began to work part time for InCA and came on board full time in 1981 with THE HEART OF HEALING. Since that time, she has production managed many productions such as AMELIA EARHARDT’S LAST FLIGHT, THE PROMISE OF PLAY, 2001: HAL’S LEGACY, WINE FOR THE CONFUSED, ONE BITE OF THE APPLE, THE POWER OF THE SUN, THE FORGIVENESS PROJECT, San Francisco Symphony’s KEEPING SCORE: TCHAIKOVSKY’S 4th SYMPHONY, & KEEPING SCORE: BEETHOVEN’S ‘EROICA’, STRAVINSKY’S ‘RITE OF SPRING & AARON COPLAND and the AMERICAN SOUND.
Ms. King also acts as general Business Manager for InCA Productions.
CREDITS
Keeping Score: MTT on Music: San Francisco Symphony and PBS
Production Manager InCA Productions
Pilot for new series on classical music featuring Michael Tilson Thomas
TO BE PREMIERED ON GREAT PERFORMANCES, JUNE 2004
John Cleese's Wine For the Confused: The Food Network and MY Television
Production Manager InCA Productions
Special feature on wine for the Food Channel, starring John Cleese
PREMIERES OCTOBER 2004
One Bite of the Apple: A Portrait of the Artist Edwina Sandys: PBS/SCETV, Royal Oak Foundation and others
Production Manager InCA Productions
Portrait of Winston Churchill’s grand-daughter, artist Edwina Sandys
PREMIERES JUNE 2004
Surviving September 11th : (2002)
UCLA Center for Community Health
Production Manager InCA Productions
A half-hour special featuring the effects of 9/11 on one New York family
2001: HAL’s Legacy: (2001)
PBS/SCETV and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Production Manager InCA Productions
60/90 minute specials about Artificial Intelligence, featuring Arthur C. Clarke & "2001: A Space Odyssey".
THE PROMISE OF PLAY PBS, Fall, 2000
Production Manager InCA Productions
This 3 part series demonstrates the evolutionary importance of play in childhood and throughout life. Featuring Jane Goodall.
The Final Hours : Amelia Earhart's Last Flight (2000)
Romeo Delta Productions/South Carolina Educational TV/ PBS/National Air & Space Museum/Smithsonian Institution
Production Manager InCA Productions
Documentary recreation of Amelia Earhart's fateful 1937 journey, shot in 19 countries worldwide.
Inner Journeys (1998/9)
Production Manager InCA Productions
Cross Cultural Journeys/Institute of Noetic Sciences
Pilot for a series of travel videos to exotic destinations, focussing on the spiritual quest of the participants.
Pulling Out All the Stops (1996/7)
PBS/American Guild of Organists AGO
Production Manager InCA Productions
Centennial music special featuring pipe organs in concerts, theaters and churches, plus training film and sales tape.
The Heart of Healing TBS, 1993
Production Manager InCA Productions
A documentary series exploring the power of mind and spirit in health
and healing. Hosted by Jane Seymour. Broadcast on Turner Broadcasting Systems; home video distribution by Time Life, Inc.
LAWRENCE AND ANNA HALPRIN: INNER LANDSCAPES: 1991
Unit Manager KQED
A look at the passionate careers of two of San Francisco's art legends: dancer/ choreographer Anna Halprin and her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin
A RAISIN IN THE SUN: 1988 PBS/KCET Los Angeles
Unit Manager Kcet
PBS production of the Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. The epic story of the Younger family struggling to realize the dream by escaping ghetto life. Danny Glover & Esther Rolle.
LOOK AWAY: 1987 PBS/KCET Los Angeles
Unit Manager
Production of the last days of Mary Todd Lincoln with Ellen Burstyn.
Cosmos (1980-1982)
Unit Coordinator PBS & BBC
A thirteen-part series on astronomy and the planet Earth, hosted by Carl Sagan. (Senior Producer and Location Director).
Keeping Score: MTT on Music: San Francisco Symphony and PBS
Production Manager InCA Productions
Pilot for new series on classical music featuring Michael Tilson Thomas
TO BE PREMIERED ON GREAT PERFORMANCES, JUNE 2004
John Cleese's Wine For the Confused: The Food Network and MY Television
Production Manager InCA Productions
Special feature on wine for the Food Channel, starring John Cleese
PREMIERES OCTOBER 2004
One Bite of the Apple: A Portrait of the Artist Edwina Sandys: PBS/SCETV, Royal Oak Foundation and others
Production Manager InCA Productions
Portrait of Winston Churchill’s grand-daughter, artist Edwina Sandys
PREMIERES JUNE 2004
Surviving September 11th : (2002)
UCLA Center for Community Health
Production Manager InCA Productions
A half-hour special featuring the effects of 9/11 on one New York family
2001: HAL’s Legacy: (2001)
PBS/SCETV and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Production Manager InCA Productions
60/90 minute specials about Artificial Intelligence, featuring Arthur C. Clarke & "2001: A Space Odyssey".
THE PROMISE OF PLAY PBS, Fall, 2000
Production Manager InCA Productions
This 3 part series demonstrates the evolutionary importance of play in childhood and throughout life. Featuring Jane Goodall.
The Final Hours : Amelia Earhart's Last Flight (2000)
Romeo Delta Productions/South Carolina Educational TV/ PBS/National Air & Space Museum/Smithsonian Institution
Production Manager InCA Productions
Documentary recreation of Amelia Earhart's fateful 1937 journey, shot in 19 countries worldwide.
Inner Journeys (1998/9)
Production Manager InCA Productions
Cross Cultural Journeys/Institute of Noetic Sciences
Pilot for a series of travel videos to exotic destinations, focussing on the spiritual quest of the participants.
Pulling Out All the Stops (1996/7)
PBS/American Guild of Organists AGO
Production Manager InCA Productions
Centennial music special featuring pipe organs in concerts, theaters and churches, plus training film and sales tape.
The Heart of Healing TBS, 1993
Production Manager InCA Productions
A documentary series exploring the power of mind and spirit in health
and healing. Hosted by Jane Seymour. Broadcast on Turner Broadcasting Systems; home video distribution by Time Life, Inc.
LAWRENCE AND ANNA HALPRIN: INNER LANDSCAPES: 1991
Unit Manager KQED
A look at the passionate careers of two of San Francisco's art legends: dancer/ choreographer Anna Halprin and her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin
A RAISIN IN THE SUN: 1988 PBS/KCET Los Angeles
Unit Manager Kcet
PBS production of the Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. The epic story of the Younger family struggling to realize the dream by escaping ghetto life. Danny Glover & Esther Rolle.
LOOK AWAY: 1987 PBS/KCET Los Angeles
Unit Manager
Production of the last days of Mary Todd Lincoln with Ellen Burstyn.
Cosmos (1980-1982)
Unit Coordinator PBS & BBC
A thirteen-part series on astronomy and the planet Earth, hosted by Carl Sagan. (Senior Producer and Location Director).
CHERYL KING
