Miguel Sancho Information

Author / Executive Producer
Florida, USA

Biography:
Miguel Sancho is an Executive Producer of non-scripted television documentaries and series, showrunning and developing projects with Six West Productions, including The HISTORY Channel series The Proof is Out There, which he helped create, and the upcoming* Military Mysteries*, premiering in 2023. Other recent projects include The HISTORY Channel special *Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution*; and Lifetime's *Beyond the Headlines: The Watts Family Tragedy*. Prior to that he was executive producer on the documentary series *The Untold Story* hosted by Elizabeth Vargas, and a supervising producer on the 2018 A&E series Cults and Extreme Belief. He also works as a consultant for development and scripting for Efran Films on various true crime series.

Miguel is the author of More Than You Can Handle: A Rare Disease, a Family in Crisis, and the Cutting-Edge Medicine that Cured the Incurable. The book chronicles the lives, deaths and "rebirths" of patients and staff at the Duke University Hospital Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, where his own son's life was saved in 2016. The book was published in 2021 by Penguin Random House.

Prior to his work at A+E Networks, Miguel accumulated more than two decades of experience producing national television news broadcasts, most recently as senior producer for the ABC News program 20/20, managing production of hundreds of primetime broadcasts, ranging from long-term documentary projects to live breaking news specials. Known as a prolific originator of ideas, a masterful script editor and a dexterous problem-solver, Miguel was responsible for many of the most high-profile projects in the program's recent history, working extensively with top talent such as Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Vargas, David Muir, Dan Harris, Chris Cuomo and John Stossel.

With a background in investigative reporting, he oversaw many of the most legally sensitive projects the network aired during his tenure there. He and his teams won many of the industry's top journalism awards, including the Edward R. Murrow, the George Polk, the Sigma Delta Chi, the IRE Award. Most recently, he won a 2017 Emmy for an hour-long documentary special on the Las Vegas massacre and was nomimated for an Emmy in 2020 for Black Patriots. He enjoys the teaching of television journalism as much as the practice of it and has conducted numerous staff seminars on writing and shooting. He also served on the ABC News committee on Diversity, Growth, and Development.

Prior to his time at ABC, Miguel spent eight years as producer at the CBS News magazine 48 Hours, where he developed his skills as cinematic storyteller in the long-form format. During his years in the field, he's covered stories all across the US and abroad, including Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Miguel currently lives in south Florida with his wife Felicia and two children, Lydia and Sebastian.