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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!

WGA trophy on red fabric

The Orchard Project 2021 Performance Lab

The Orchard Project Announces 2021 Labs, Projects, and Participants

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.

Don't Stay Safe

image credit: Prospect Theater Company
Stream on YouTube; Image: Prospect Theater Company.

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

Paris Film Festival Honorable Mention Laurel.

& more.

Official Selection Laurel - Don't Stay Safe - Prison City Film Festival 2021
Official Selection Laurel - Don't Stay Safe - Toronto Film Channel Awards 2021

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! 

New Voices in Animation Semi-Finalist laurel

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

#whilewebreathe

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


Law & Order: SVU

Cheryl is proud to be part of Law & Order: SVU’s writing team for its history-making 21st season!

The @SVUWritersRoom wears orange for all those we have lost; and for common sense gun reform. via @SVUWritersRoom

10pm – Thursday, September 26 the record breaking 21st Season of SVU premiers.

credits - garland's baptism by fire

“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


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