Cherie Bennett
Cherie Bennett (born 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. Sometimes known as the "Big and Tall Barbie Doll", 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. For many years, she wrote frequently with Jeff Gottesfeld, with whom she shared the Zoey Dean pseudonym.[1]
Her father was a writer for such shows as The Twilight Zone, Route 66, and Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.
Since June 2011, she's been the Artistic Director at Amusings Productions in Sherman Oaks.
Television credits
The Young and the Restless (hired by Lynn Marie Latham; fired by Maria Arena Bell)
- 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 (hired by Hogan Sheffer)
- Breakdown Writer: 2005
Port Charles (hired by Lynn Marie Latham)
- Story Consultant: 1998
- 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 and 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 fme
- 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 Books 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 Books For Young Adults, 1999
References
- ^ Biography: Zoey Dean. Scholastic Corporation (accessed September 20, 2015)
External links
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
- American soap opera writers
- American television writers
- American screenwriters
- Daytime Emmy Award winners
- Women television writers
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Soap opera producers
- American television producers
- Wayne State University alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- People from Buffalo, New York
- Writers from New York
- Jewish American writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- Women soap opera writers