Cherie Bennett


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.

Biography

Bennett attended Wayne State University, and then the University of Michigan in the early 1980s, as a musical theatre major. She worked as an actress, doing national musical tours, regional theatre 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 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. She and Gottesfeld are divorced.
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
  • 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
  • Dawson's Creek
  • Mirror Image
  • Hope Hospital
Six Book Series
  • University Hospital
  • Wild Hearts
  • Teen Angels
  • Trash
  • Pageant
Other Books
  • Turn Me On
  • 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
  • A Heart Divided
  • Cyra And Rocky
  • ''Reviving Ophelia''

    Films

  • ''Broken Bridges''

    Newspaper column

  • "Hey, Cherie!"

    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
  • American Library Association: Best Books For Young Adults, 2005 nominee
  • International Reading Association: Young Adult Readers' Choice, Anne Frank And Me, 2003
  • American Alliance of Theater And Education UPR, 2000 winner
  • American Library Association: Best Books For Young Adults, 1999