Cherie Bennett
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Cherie Bennett (born in Buffalo, New York) is an American novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist, singer, and television writer on the soap opera The Young And The Restless.
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[edit] 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 headed her own improv comedy trio, Zaniac, and performed as a vocalist, singing backup for John Mellencamp and in her play, Honk Tonk Angels.
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. Her pseudonyms are C. J. Anders, and Carrie Austen. Along with other writers, she has been linked to Zoey Dean as well.
[edit] Television Credits
Script Writer: December 14, 2006 - Dec 21, 2007; March 18, 2008 - present//Associate Head Writer: July 2007 - December 21, 2007; March 18, 2008 - present)
Y&R Main Crew
| HW | Fired | Associate/Breakdown/Script | Producers/Consultants | Directors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Arena Bell, Scott Hamner | LML, Lynsey DuFour, Marina Alburger, Bernard Lechowick | Cherie Bennett, Darin Goldberg [1], Neil Landau, Christian McLaughlin, Sandra Weintraub, Linda Schreiber, Tammy Ader, Shelley Meals, Diane Messina Stanley, Barbara Bloom, Michael Montgomery, Natalie Minardi Slater, Eric Freiwald, Kathryn Pratt [2], Jeff Gottesfeld, Valerie Ahern, Linda Gase [3], James Stanley, Robin Burger [4] | Josh Griffith (EP), John Fisher, Anthony Morina, Josh O'Connell, Matthew J. Olson, Steve Kent, Bill Bell Jr. | Susan Strickler, Phideaux Xavier, Sally McDonald, Andrew Lee, John Zak, Jill Ackles, Marc Berutti, Dean LaMont, David Shaughnessy |
- 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
[edit] Films
- Broken Bridges (Writer: 2006)
[edit] Newspaper Column
- "Hey, Cherie!" (Weekly teen advice column through Copley News Service)
[edit] 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
[edit] External links
- Hachette Book Group USA: Bennett
- Publishers Weekly: Bennett
- Greenwich Times: Bennett's Column
- Smart Writers Interview
- TeenReads 2003 Interview
