Team
Emmy and Gemini Award winning producer Cheryl Wagner, with her successful track record in children’s television, joins forces with long-time writing partner Harmony Wagner, to create projects with humour and heart, for all platforms.
Cheryl Wagner
An award-winning writer and producer of children’s television, Cheryl’s credits include:
• creator and show runner of the highly successful 100 episode preschool series THE BIG COMFY COUCH with Toronto’s Radical Sheep Productions. She is happy to crow that BCC has seen a total recoupment for investors and was awarded two Emmys, a Gemini and an ACT Award of Excellence.
• creative producer on the preschool series and Gemini winner POKO [stop motion] with Halifax Film for CBC-Kids
• co-creator of BO on the GO [CG] with Halifax Film for CBC-Kids
Before television beckoned, her career in children’s entertainment began in theatre as a puppeteer and clown. Cheryl is very proud of and grateful for her years working closely with Jim Henson on Fraggle Rock and Ernie Coombs on Mr. Dressup. Her film experience includes the role of Ms. Finch in the Sesame Street film Follow That Bird. Ms Wagner has also been involved in the writing and creation of adult dramatic series with Moncton’s Dream Street Pictures.
Cheryl resides in Charlottetown and as member of the Island Film Factory is working on developing and supporting the community of creators of screen stories – whether film, television, or other platforms. A member of the Writer's Guild of Canada, she was the Prince Edward Island Creative Development Representative for Super Channel. She also sits on the Board of Directors of WIFT-Atlantic.
Harmony Wagner
Born into a family of clowns, Harmony Wagner has always had a penchant for making people laugh, making people cry and wearing many different hats. She was Head Writer for on-line social-networking massive multi-player game, Cities of Sinners and Saints and has written for children's television: Big Comfy Couch and Panda Bear Daycare, Sketch Comedy: Sketch 22 and humorous Horiscopes for The Coast. Harmony developed the series bible for an interactive kid's web series, The Amazing Travelling Friendship Fair, for Mugisha Enterprises and has worked as a writing consultant for script and series development for Radical Sheep Productions, Dream Street Pictures and Flying Point Productions. Her screenplay was selected for the 2009 PEI Screenwriter's Bootcamp and her screen story: You're Not the Boss of Me, was short-listed for the 1999 Writer's Guild of Canada Awards.
Harmony has years of experience as a performer and puppeteer for television: Big Teeth, Bad Breath (YTV), Anne Murray CBC Special, Juno Awards, Kidney Foundation Commercial; film: Mrs. Ashboro's Cat, and theatre: Sketch 22, Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang, D.O Eh?, Fools Rush In, The Miracle Worker. She sits on the PEI Culture Sector Counsel Training Committee, contributes as a writer to the WIFT-Atlantic newsletter and is a member of the Island Media Arts Coop and the Writer's Guild of Canada. She is the producer of the short film "Lucky Seven", winner of the CBC Maritimes 2010 3-2-1 Award.