McFadden worked at The Jim Henson Company as the director of choreography and puppet movement for Labyrinth, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and uncredited work on Dreamchild. As a way of distinguishing her acting work from her choreography, she is usually credited as "Gates McFadden" as an actress and "Cheryl McFadden" as a choreographer. However, she was credited as "Cheryl McFadden" in the Troma movie When Nature Calls (1985) and in the season-three episode of The Cosby Show, "Cliff's 50th Birthday".
McFadden worked at The Jim Henson Company as the director of choreography and puppet movement for Labyrinth The Muppets Take Manhattan and uncredited work on Dreamchild As a way of distinguishing her acting work from her choreography she is usually credited as "Gates McFadden" as an actress and "Cheryl McFadden" as a choreographer However she was credited as "Cheryl McFadden" in the Troma movie When Nature Calls (1985) and in the season-three episode of The Cosby Show "Cliff's 50th Birthday"