SO THAT HAPPENED!

Keeping busy in COVID “exile”, as we like to call it.  Doing a lot of self-taping and video-submitting, with immense gratitude to the casting folks who are using the time to build their files.

But the big news is: my collaborators and I are three-quarters of the way through the writing of a ten-episode TV series.  Writing is an incredible adventure, an amazing new direction, and hopefully a way to make lemonade out the lemons of 2020.  We’ll be looking to sell this epic by the end of the summer.

AND THAT HAPPENED!

The past few years have been incredibly busy, culminating in the booking and shoot of my first National Commercial!  I play Alberta and the focus is on a financial product.

The film business has been good too, starting with Get Away, in which I played Shirley.  Written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman, Get Away was screened at the Raindance Festival in London.

I followed that film with the leading role of Nia in Gods, Generally, written and directed by Celine Sutter. A clip from that film is on my demo reel on the Media Page here.

Then came the role of Jean in This Must Be the Place, written and directed by Brendan Letizia, which screened at the 401 Film Festival in West Warwick, Rhode Island.

And most recently, in January 2020, I played Candace in Consecration, written and directed by Jacob Robert Huebner.

Plots and stills of these films can be found on IMDb.

And if that wasn’t enough, I found time to help launch a theatre, Do No Harm Theatre Company.  I’ve turned the reins over to others and the company is now dedicated to fostering new works, shepherding them from page to stage.  When show business returns as we know it, they will be worth watching.

AMAZING 2017 SO FAR!

Very successful run in June playing Clairee to Dawn Wells’ Ouiser in Steel Magnolias at Alhambra Theatre & Dining in Jacksonville Florida.  Dawn and I worked together many years ago at the old Limestone Valley Dinner Theatre.  We were a good team then and I’m happy to say we picked up right where we left off.  Had a great time doing this beautiful play.  From Broadway World: “Clairee is played by Cheryl Horne, who made her Alhambra debut in this role. Horne delivers a light-hearted southern charm necessary to Clairee’s character, and I hope she graces the Alhambra stage again!”

In January I was privileged to play Prudence in Columbia Stages’ production of Camino Real at the Connelly Theatre here in New York.  The very talented Matt Trucano directed, and the experience was a joy from start to finish.

I’ve also completed a few short films already this year.  Lost in Brooklyn, directed by Tim Wood, is a beautiful short film about the relationship between a woman with Alzheimer’s (me) and her daughter.  It’s a subject dear to my heart and the film is destined for the festival circuit, screening at the Chain NYC Festival on August 10th!

Show business is my life!

REVIEWS

Mourning Becomes Electra

“Chief among Chain Lightning’s assets is Cheryl Horne as Lavinia Mannon, the ‘Electra’ of the title, with a glare of Puritan recititude that gorgons would die for.”
NY Daily News

“Funereal and rigid, Cheryl Horne plays perfectly the woman with repressed passions that flare at unexpected moments. No reaction is inappropriate, yet all are unexpected.”
The Westsider

Uncle Vanya

“…and the focus is still, ultimately, Elena (Cheryl Horne), who is played in this production with such stunning, glorious intensity that Horne’s performance threatens to engulf the surroundings.”
The Insider