Cherie Bennett

Cherie Bennett (born in Buffalo, New York) is an American novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist and television writer on the 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, 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 also headed her own improv comedy trio, Zaniac.

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

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 husband. the writer Jeff Gottesfeld, and son.

Television Credits

• The Young And The Restless (Script Writer: December 14, 2006- Present; Associate Head Writer: July 2007-present)

Y&R Crew: HW	Associate/Breakdown/Script	Producers	Directors
Lynn Marie Latham (HW) & Scott Hamner (Co-HW)	Cherie Bennett, Darin Goldberg, Neil Landau, David Assael [1], Christian McLaughlin, Sandra Weintraub, Shelley Meals, Linda Schreiber, Carla Kettner, D.M. Stanley [2], Barbara Bloom, Doug Steinberg [3], Lynsey DuFour, Michael Montgomery, James Grissom, N.M. Slater, Brett Staneart, Marina Alburger, Robin Burger, Tammy Ader [4], Eric Freiwald, Vincent Lechowick, Jeff Gottesfeld, Kathryn Pratt [5], Valerie Ahern, Bernard Lechowick, Linda Gase [6], James Stanley	L.M. Latham (Executive Producer), Josh Griffith (Co-EP), John Fisher [7], Anthony Morina, Josh O'Connell, Matthew J. Olson	Susan Strickler, Phideaux Xavier, Michael Vejar, Sally McDonald, Andrew Lee, Jill Ackles, Dean LaMont

• Girls Got Game (Procter & Gamble Televest Productions: 2006)
• As The World Turns (Breakdown Writer: 2005)
• Smallville (2001-2002)
• Port Charles (Story Consultant: 1998)
• Another World (Story Consultant: 1997)

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

• Girls In Love
• Zink
• 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
• Life In The Fat Lane
• 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

• 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