Cherie Bennett
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Cherie Bennett is an American novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist, singer, and television writer on the CBS Daytime
soap opera
The Young and the Restless
.
, 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 husband, 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.
Her father was a writer for such shows as The Twilight Zone
, Route 66
, and Sid Caesar's
Your Show of Shows.
(hired by Lynn Marie Latham
)
As the World Turns
Port Charles
Another World
Girls Got Game: 2006
Smallville
: 2001 - 2002
Six Book Series
Other Books
CBS Daytime
CBS Daytime is a television programming block on CBS. It's the branding for the CBS Television Network's late morning and early afternoon programming. The block has historically encompassed soap operas, game shows, and talk shows...
soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
.
Biography
Writing was not Bennett's early focus. She attended Wayne State UniversityWayne State University
Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...
, and then the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of 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
Mark Medoff
Mark Medoff is an American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor. His play Children of a Lesser God received both the Tony Award and the Olivier Award...
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? and a well-reviewed turn in the off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...
revival of Tennessee Williams'
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. She headed her own improv
Improvisational theatre
Improvisational theatre takes many forms. It is best known as improv or impro, which is often comedic, and sometimes poignant or dramatic. In this popular, often topical art form improvisational actors/improvisers use improvisational acting techniques to perform spontaneously...
comedy trio, Zaniac, and performed as a vocalist, singing backup for John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock that eschews synthesizers and other artificial sounds...
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
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
shopping. She lives in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
with her husband, writer Jeff Gottesfeld
Jeff Gottesfeld
Jeff Gottesfeld is an American essayist, novelist, and screen and television writer.- Biography :Jeff Gottesfeld grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, attended Teaneck High School, Colby College, and then the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he was president of his class and a member of...
, and son. Her pseudonyms are C.J. Anders, and Carrie Austen
Carrie Austen
Janice Boies is a young adult fiction author, otherwise known as Carrie Austen, Alison Blair and Jan Bradford., is an American novel writer best known for her late 80s' early 90s' The Party Line series of books.- External links :**...
. Along with other writers, she has been linked to Zoey Dean
Zoey Dean
Zoey Dean is the pseudonym for the creators of The A-List series and How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls, which has been renamed and turned into a TV show known as Privileged on the CW in September 2008...
as well.
Her father was a writer for such shows as The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising...
, Route 66
Route 66 (TV series)
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod...
, and Sid Caesar's
Sid Caesar
Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy award winning American comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.- Early life :Caesar was born in Yonkers, New York,...
Your Show of Shows.
Television credits
The Young and the RestlessThe Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
(hired by Lynn Marie Latham
Lynn Marie Latham
Lynn Marie Latham is an Emmy Award-winning television writer and producer. Her initial foray into writing for television was as a story editor for the short-lived series Berrenger's in 1985...
)
- Script WriterScreenwriterScreenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
: December 14, 2006 - December 21, 2007; March 18 - August 19, 2008 - Associate Head WriterHead writerA head writer is a person who oversees the team of writers on a television or radio series. The title is common in the soap opera genre, as well as with sketch comedies and talk shows that feature monologues and comedy skits, but in prime time series this function is generally performed by an...
: July 2007 - December 21, 2007; March 18 - July 10, 2008
As the World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
- Breakdown Writer: 2005
Port Charles
Port Charles
Port Charles was a daytime soap opera which aired on ABC from June 2, 1997 to October 3, 2003. It is a spin-off of the serial General Hospital, which has been running since 1963 and takes place in the fictional city of Port Charles, New York...
- Story ConsultantCreative consultantCreative consultant is a credit that has - particularly in the past - been given to screenwriters who have “doctored” a movie screenplay. It is often given by producers in lieu of official credit. Those given this credit in the television field work closely with an Executive Producer, Head...
: 1998
Another World
Another World (TV series)
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
- Story Consultant: 1997
Girls Got Game: 2006
Smallville
Smallville (TV series)
Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB Television Network , premiering on October...
: 2001 - 2002
Books
Book Series- Sunset Island (forty-one book series)
- Dawson's CreekDawson's CreekDawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons...
(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 HeartSearching for David's HeartSearching for David's Heart is a young-adult novel by Cherie Bennett.-Plot summary:Darcy Deeton is a twelve-year-old girl who loves her older brother, David. After becoming jealous when he falls in love with Jayne Evans, Darcy inadvertently leads David to his death in a car accident. The Deetons...
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 PipherMary PipherMary Elizabeth Pipher, also known as Mary Bray Pipher , Ph.D., is an American clinical psychologist and author. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969 and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in...
)
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 AssociationAmerican Library AssociationThe American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....
: Best Book For Young Adults, 2005 nominee (A Heart Divided) - International Reading AssociationInternational Reading AssociationThe International Reading Association is an international professional organization that was created in 1956 to improve reading instruction, facilitate dialogue about research on reading, and encourage the habit of reading....
: Young Adult Readers' Choice, Anne Frank And Me, 2003 - American Alliance of Theater And Education UPR, 2000 winner (David's Heart)
- American Library AssociationAmerican Library AssociationThe American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....
: Best Book For Young Adults Award, 1999