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.

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

Port Charles

Another World

Girls Got Game: 2006
Smallville: 2001 - 2002

Book Series

Six Book Series

Other Books