Biography
Judy Cairo is an American film and television producer. She holds a B.A. in radio, television and motion pictures and religious studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1983 to 1993 she was executive producer of local programming at WSB-TV in Atlanta, where she produced documentaries and won 15 Regional Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award.
Since 1994 she has been a partner and producer at Cairo Simpson Entertainment and Informant Media in Los Angeles. Her feature credits include Crazy Heart (2009), Hysteria (2011), Stuck in Love (2013), Boychoir (2015), Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015), Dirty Dancing (2017) and Candy Jar (2018). She has also produced numerous television films.
Cairo is a professor of film and television at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
