Podcast appearances and mentions of Cheryl L Davis

Douglas J Cohen Doug received the 2010 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting and won two Richard Rodgers Awards for writing book, music, and lyrics for NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY (produced twice off-Broadway resulting in over 100 productions worldwide; an upcoming NY commercial production in-the-works through producer Larry Hirschhorn) and THE GIG (O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, Goodspeed, York Theatre Company concert on CD and reading in conjunction with the Noël Coward Prize, and Sacramento Music Circus). Doug is the composer/lyricist of THE BIG TIME (book by Douglas Carter Beane) which debuted at the NYMF Festival; plans are underway for a Broadway-bound production. Nominated for a 2005 Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Lyrics, CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO GOD), he penned co-book, music, and lyrics for THE OPPOSITE OF SEX (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and received a Jonathan Larson Grant for composing BARNSTORMER, which has recently been optioned for New York by producer Lawrence Poster. Doug is the composer of GLIMMERGLASS (NAMT Conference 2000, readings through the Village Theatre and Melting Pot, productions at Goodspeed at Chester, Spirit of Broadway – Best Production of 2008) and A CHARLES DICKENS CHRISTMAS (produced by Theatreworks/USA and licensed through MTI). He also penned book and lyrics to VALENTINO'S TANGO (with music by Howard Marren, choreographed/directed by Chet Walker) and contributed original songs to JACKIE COLLINS' HOLLYWOOD LIES, and BOOZY (Robert Moses), the latter produced by Les Freres Corbusier and directed by Tony nominee Alex Timbers, which enjoyed runs at both the Ohio Theatre and Culture Project. His latest musicals are NINE WIVES with collaborator Dan Elish (which has been optioned by producers Larry Hirschhorn and Jayson Raitt and selected for the 2013 Goodspeed Festival of New Artists) HELEN OF TROY written with future West End lyricist/ playwright Zoe Samuel and workshopped at Coastal Carolina University, and BRIDGES, commissioned by The Berkeley Playhouse written with BARNSTORMER collaborator, Cheryl L. Davis. His new play, LOVELY SEND ANYWHERE, a finalist for the Laurents-Hatcher Award, has been developed at the Lark Play Development Center and received a reading in October 2012 starring Santino Fontana and Condola Rashad. A graduate of Amherst College, Doug recently joined the faculty of the Neighborhood Playhouse where he teaches the 2nd year students in song interpretation. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. How to Survive a Killer Musical: Agony and Ecstasy on the Road to Broadway When the young composer-lyricist Douglas Cohen first secured the musical rights to the novel No Way to Treat a Lady by William Goldman—the acclaimed author of The Princess Bride and Marathon Man—he hoped it would be his big break, the first step on a gilt path to artistic triumph and commercial success in the form of a hit Broadway musical. What happened after that, while memorable, was anything but. How to Survive a Killer Musical chronicles Cohen's decade-long quest to bring that musical to the stage—writing, re-writing, and shepherding it across the US and Europe amidst all manner of adversity and plain rotten luck. It's a fascinating portrait of passion, persistence, and resilience—a coming-of-age story populated with famous mentors and formidable adversaries, told with refreshing honesty and humor.

Gloria J. Browne Marshall welcomes Cheryl L. Davis, General Counsel of the Authors Guild to talk about Book Bans: The Impact on Writers, Readers, and Civil Liberties. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gloria-j-browne-marshall/support

This week we host a panel discussion between three writers, Susan-Sojourna Collier, Cheryl L. Davis, and Allan Neuwirth, regarding thier feeling on the ongoing strike, the Writers Guild, AI and other topics. Susan-Sojourna Collier is an Emmy Nominated veteran television writer, who has worked on daytime drama series, including All My Children, Port Charles, and One Life to Live. She partnered with the late Tommy Ford to produce two features for Lionsgate/Grindstone. The first, Conflict of Interest, is the highest-rated film on Aspire TV. The second feature, Switching Lanes, received the Best Feature honor at the Kingdomwood Christian Film Festival. She also penned the screenplay Get the Show on the Road, an adaptation of a romantic comedy novel, which was a semi-finalist in the Tribeca Screenwriting Festival. Currently, she is finishing the documentary - Through My Lens: A Study of Bullying in the African American Community. Susan-Sojourna also developed the creative writing workshop Messages to My Younger Brother/ Messages to My Younger Sister (addressing issues of incarcerated and youth-at-risk) and co-founded the Mamie and Jimmie Collier Writing Fellowship. Cheryl L. Davis received a Writers' Guild Award and a Daytime Emmy nomination for her work on As the World Turns. She is currently a freelance writer for Law & Order: SVU, her episode Garland's Baptism by Fire aired on April 2, 2020. Her play Swimming Uptown has received developmental readings at the Lark Play Development Center, the Abingdon Theatre, and the Classical Theater of Harlem; the TV pilot based on that play was a featured script in the New York TV Festival in 2017. She was the sole script writer for the health-related radio drama, Staying Well in Camberwell. Cheryl received the Ed Kleban Award for her work as a musical theater librettist, and her musical Barnstormer, received a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award under the auspices of the Lark Play Development Center. Her play Maid's Door was produced at the Billie Holiday Theatre to excellent reviews, received seven Audelco Awards, and was presented at the 2015 and 2017 National Black Theatre Festivals; it was also a finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize. She is a practicing attorney in Manhattan and is the General Counsel for the Authors Guild. Allan Neuwirth co-created the internationally syndicated comic strip "Chelsea Boys," written non-fiction books about the entertainment industry, including "Makin' Toons" (2003, Allworth Press) and "They'll Never Put That On The Air" (2006, Allworth Press). Neuwirth has head written, story edited, and/or written for TV series including "Bubble Guppies" (Nick Jr.), "Rugrats (2021)" (Paramount+), "Space Racers" (Universal Kids), "The Bug Diaries" (Amazon Prime), "Octonauts" (Disney Channel & BBC), "Big Bag" (Cartoon Network), "Tumble Leaf," (Amazon Prime), "Arthur" (PBS), "Cyberchase" (PBS), "Courage the Cowardly Dog" (Cartoon Network), and "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss" (Nickelodeon). Allan produced and directed the musical documentary feature "What's The Name Of The Dame?" (2011), produced the feature film "Drawing Home" (2017), associate produced "Call Me By Your Name" (2017), executive produced "Change In The Air" (2018), and is working on "State of Dispute" (2023), "Shadow Cast", "The Yank" and "Boy From Berlin".

On today's edition, we talk to our CEO Suzanne Nossel about what literary organizations can do at this moment of crisis as part of our weekly series "Tough Questions." Then, we get insights from general counsel of the Authors Guild, playwright, and TV writer Cheryl L. Davis on how books and literature can help us better understand this difficult moment of unrest. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/support

Emmy-nominated and Writers Guild Award-winning television and stage writer Cheryl L. Davis chats with Jordan von Haslow about this weeks' premiere of her first "Law & Order: SVU" episode.   They also discuss her long career as a librettist and playwright, as well as her time writing for venerable soap opera "As the World Turns". All this while juggling a full-time career as a practicing attorney.

Demore Barnes talks about pulling back the curtain to Garland's Oz. Then, writers Cheryl L. Davis and Micharne Cloughley discuss how they crafted Garland's inner world for this week's episode - “Garland's Baptism by Fire” (Season 21, Episode 18). And longtime casting directors Jonathan Strauss and Philip Huffman explain how they find the right talent on a tight schedule.

Topics include:What is the CASE Act and why is it important?How does it work?A voluntary process where each side needs to opt in or outHow big is piracy? A problem of international scope that demands a multiprong strategyThe of the US Government in enforcementShould ISPs and host platforms be responsible for the sometimes libelous or infringing content on their websites?What is the possible impact of CASE on Fair Use?Is their protection against frivolous lawsuits?LinksIBPA statement on passage of the CASE Act (with graphic)https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/news.asp?id=475423The CASE Act explainedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASE_ActSenate draft of the CASE Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1273/textThe Authors Guildhttps://www.authorsguild.org/RECOMMENDED READINGS FROM THE AUTHORS GUILDhttps://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/the-case-act-your-questions-answered/https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/victory-in-the-house-for-the-case-act/https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/the-authors-guild-supports-a-copyright-small-claims-court/https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/authors-guild-survey-shows-drastic-42-percent-decline-in-authors-earnings-in-last-decade/https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/six-takeaways-from-the-authors-guild-2018-authors-income-survey/ParticipantsMary Rasenberger is the Executive Director of the Authors Guild and Authors Guild Foundation. Prior to joining the Guild in November 2014, Mary practiced law for over 25 years in roles that spanned private practice, the government and corporate sector, as a recognized expert in copyright and media law. She is a frequent speaker, lecturer and writer on copyright law and authors’ rights.Cheryl L. Davis is General Counsel of the Author's Guild, where she oversees the organization’s legal affairs, including its in-house corporate affairs, its government relations and policy initiatives, and its legal services program. In addition, she is responsible for developing a wide variety of the organization’s written positions, policies, statements, submissions to government agencies, and legal briefs, as well as participating in domestic and international public speaking engagements and conferences.Peter Goodman (host) is publisher of Stone Bridge Press in Berkeley, California. He began his publishing career in Tokyo, Japan, in 1976. A longtime member of IBPA, he has served on the IBPA board and as IBPA board chair.For more information, go to IBPA at https://www.ibpa-online.org/.

Cheryl Davis started off her professional career as an attorney working at major law firms while having a big aspiration for writing. Few decades later, she has written over dozens of TV shows and plays winning multiple awards including Ed Kelban Award, Writer’s Guild Award as well as getting an Emmy nomination for her work on “As the World Turns” while providing legal counsels to many authors and writers all over the city. But her journey to becoming an award-winning writer wasn’t an easy one. Cheryl talks with Kazuki about the people who encouraged her down that path, and her realization that she needs to follow what jazzes her. Check out her new play, BRIDGES at the Amas Theatre on November 15th and 16th. Here’s the info below: Amas Dare to Different Festival November 15 @ 3 & 7pm November 16 @ 3pm A.R.T./New York Theatres, 502 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA To learn more about Cheryl, please check the website here: http://cldplay.com/ Cheryl L. Davis is a practicing attorney in Manhattan and is General Counsel of the Authors Guild while writing for variety of TV shows and plays. Stories For You is hosted by Kazuki Akiba. This week’s episode is produced by Ed Lee and edited by Kazuki Akiba. Ray Lanuza and Brian Blum mixed the episode. Music by GrayLaptop. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/daylight-interactive/support