News!
Writing Team member for Beyond The Gates.
see: A Slew of Veteran Soap Scribes Join Michele Val Jean and Bob Guza on Beyond The Gates (published November 15, 2024)
Resident Playwright at New Harmony Project 2023 Conference, May 24-June 4, 2023.
Co-librettist for Treemonisha opened June 2023 at the Luminato Festival Toronto.
Press: Zachary Woolfe in the New York Times: Has Scott Joplin’s ‘Thoroughly American Opera’ Found Its Moment? (Published July 27, 2023)
Writers Guild of America Award in 2023 for Days of Our Lives, Outstanding Writing Daytime Drama — Cheryl’s second win!
The Orchard Project 2021 Performance Lab
Randall David Cook and Cheryl L. Davis, with director Gwynn MacDonald, will be bringing their draft of The Monument about Sen. Strom Thurmond’s daughter Essie Mae Washington Williams – and her relationship with her history making father – to completion.
Press
The Orchard Project Announces 2021 Labs, Projects, and Participants by Alexa Criscitiello at broadwayworld.com (July 1, 2021).
Cheryl named Maven Screen Media Fellow 2021.
New Interview!
Cheryl is featured on Onstage/Offstage in Episode 139: Women of The Honor Roll with Yvette Heyliger and Lucy Wang (released 02 March 2021).
Don’t Stay Safe
Premiered December 30, 2020 as part of Prospect Theater Company’s VISION Series.
This companion piece to the full-length musical Bridges engages with the ongoing struggle for racial equality and civil rights, examining the risks of protest… and the risks of staying safe.
Book and lyrics by Cheryl L. Davis
Music by Douglas J. Cohen
Directed by Christina Franklin
Cinematography by Lesley Steele
Honors
Nominee, Outstanding Digital Theater, Individual Production Drama League Awards 2021
Official Selection, NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival 2021
Winner, Best Musical/Dance Film, Los Angeles Film Awards 2021
Honorable Mention, Paris Film Festival
Official Selection, Prison City Film Festival 2021
Official Selection, Toronto Film Channel
Best LGBTQ Short, Indie Short Fest
& more.
Press
Don’t Stay Safe! (A Stirring Musical Theater Piece) by Alix Cohen, Woman Around Town, January 6, 2021
Senator Slapstuck: From Zero to Slappy!
This new work was announced as a Semifinalist in the Stage 32 1st Annual New Voices in Animation Screenwriting contest on January 8, 2021.
#WhileWeBreathe: A Night of Creative Protest
Top Broadway talent join forces to create new works that will be featured in a one-night only event to benefit civil rights organizations.
#WhileWeBreathe will premiere on July 29 at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET on WhileWeBreathe.com, as well as YouTube Live and Facebook Live. Following the premiere, all of the works will be available for viewing.
The event will raise money for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., The Bail Project, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), BYP100 Education Fund, Forced Trajectory Project (FTP), The Justice Committee and SONG.
Press
- Appointment Theater, Coming to a Screen Near You
By Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, July 30, 2020
“Voices be heard The ambitious “#WhileWeBreathe: A Night of Creative Protest” is made up of 11 new works by and starring an exciting group of writers, directors and actors. The project, which can be watched on YouTube, benefits the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund and other like-minded organizations. While the pieces are short (the whole program runs just over an hour), most are very effective. A perfect example is Cheryl L. Davis’s “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep,” starring Patina Miller and Hailey Stone under Tamara Tunie’s direction — the minimalist staging only makes it more quietly distressing.” - What’s Streaming? Broadway Bares, Andrew Scott in Three Kings, #WhileWeBreathe by David Gordon, theatermania, July 30, 2020
Law & Order: SVU
Cheryl is proud to be part of Law & Order: SVU’s writing team for its history-making 21st season!
10pm – Thursday, September 26 the record breaking 21st Season of SVU premiers.
“Garland’s Baptism by Fire”, Cheryl’s primetime premiere, aired on April 2, 2020 on NBC at 10pm ET.
Press
Cheryl’s interview with Jordan von Haslow & Friends #9
Hear Cheryl and Micharne Cloughley discuss how they crafted Garland’s inner world for the episode – “Garland’s Baptism by Fire” in Squadroom: Demore Barnes on Garland’s Worlds Colliding (S21E18) at The Law & Order: SVU Podcast