Steinkellner Cheri

Cheri Steinkellner has won four Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, The People's Choice, BAFTA, Writers Guild Award, Parent's Choice and TV-Land Legend Award for writing and producing Cheers (recently named one of the ten best-written comedies in television history), for The Jeffersons, Facts of Life, Family Ties and Who's the Boss, and for creating the acclaimed animated Disney series Saturday Morning and the feature film Teacher's Pet. In 2011, she was nominated for Sister Act Tony Award (with husband Bill Steinkellner, Alan Menken and Glenn Slater). Cheri also wrote Princesses (with Bill, David Zippel and Matthew Wilder) and the libretto and lyrics for Mosaic (with Georgia Stitt) and Jailbirds on Broadway (with Bill and Jeff Rizzo). Other theatre works include Our Place and Instaplay, the longest running improvised musical comedy in Los Angeles. It is an Indy Award winner and was nominated for Ovation Award for Hello! My Baby. Cheri now teaches creative writing at Stanford University and UCSB and directs at the for young people in beautiful Santa Barbara, where she and Bill are raising their three children (Kit, Teddy and Emma).