Cherie Bennett

Cherie Bennett (born in 1960 in Buffalo, New York) is an American novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist, singer, and television writer on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Biography

Writing was not Bennett's early focus. She attended Wayne State University, and then the University of Michigan in the early 1980s, as a musical theater major. She worked frequently as an actress, doing national musical tours, regional theater productions including Mark Medoff's When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? and a well-reviewed turn in the off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. She headed her own improv comedy trio, Zaniac, and performed as a vocalist, singing backup for John Mellencamp and in her play, Honk Tonk Angels.

Bennett's favorite non-writing activities are reading (memoirs, medical mysteries, and show-biz stories), film, theater, cooking, politics, and Internet shopping. She lives in Los Angeles with her son. Her pseudonyms are C.J. Anders, and Carrie Austen. Along with other writers, she has been linked to Zoey Dean as well.

Her father was a writer for such shows as The Twilight Zone, Route 66, and Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.

Television credits

The Young and the Restless (hired by Lynn Marie Latham)

• Script Writer: December 14, 2006 - December 21, 2007; March 18 - August 19, 2008
• Associate Head Writer: July 2007 - December 21, 2007; March 18 - July 10, 2008

As the World Turns

• Breakdown Writer: 2005

Port Charles

• Story Consultant: 1998

Another World

• Story Consultant: 1997

Girls Got Game: 2006

Smallville: 2001 - 2002

Books

Book Series

• Sunset Island (forty-one book series)
• Dawson's Creek (seven original novels)
• Mirror Image (four book series)
• Hope Hospital (three book series)

Six Book Series

• University Hospital
• Wild Hearts
• Teen Angels
• Trash
• Pageant

Other Books

• Turn Me On (July 2007)
• Girls In Love
• Zink
• Life In The Fat Lane
• A Heart Divided
• Anne Frank & Me
• Searching for David's Heart

Plays

• John Lennon And Me
• Sex And Rage In A SoHo Loft
• Life In The Fat Lane
• Zink
• Searching for David's Heart
• A Heart Divided
• Cyra And Rocky
• Reviving Ophelia (adapted from the book by Dr. Mary Pipher)

Films

• Broken Bridges (Writer: 2006)

Newspaper column

• "Hey, Cherie!" (Weekly teen advice column through Copley News Service)

Awards and nominations

• Daytime Emmy: Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team, 2008
• Macy's Prize For Playwriting: Reviving Ophelia, 2005–2006
• Humanitas Award: Best children's film for television (Searching For David's Heart, 2005)
• American Library Association: Best Book For Young Adults, 2005 nominee (A Heart Divided)
• International Reading Association: Young Adult Readers' Choice, Anne Frank And Me, 2003
• American Alliance of Theater And Education UPR, 2000 winner (David's Heart)
• American Library Association: Best Book For Young Adults Award, 1999

External links

• Hachette Book Group USA: Bennett
• Publishers Weekly: Bennett
• Greenwich Times: Bennett's Column
• Smart Writers Interview
• TeenReads 2003 Interview