Creator-Writer-Director

Cynthia McCahon is a creator, writer, and director developing original narrative film and series projects through Essential Matter.

Her work explores interior life and human presence—examining how memory and personal history shape experience. 

With experience in television as a writer, director, and producer — including multiple Los Angeles–area regional Emmy nominations — and a background as a technology company founder, McCahon built a successful tech company from the ground up, navigating the exact world The Recipient inhabits and returning to television with a story only that journey made possible. She now focuses on creator-driven projects developed with cinematic long-form intent and a founder's discipline.

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McCahon develops projects independently through Essential Matter, maintaining clean authorship and chain of title while preparing select work for representation and production.