Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Sheryl J. Anderson

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on TV writer and executive producer Sheryl J. Anderson, who is also a mystery novelist.

Sheryl started her career in the entertainment industry working as a writer on the sitcoms Parker Lewis Can’t Lose in 1991 and 1992 and Dave’s World from 1995 to 1997. The following year she landed a job as a writer on the long-running series Charmed, where she eventually became a supervising producer and then a co-executive producer, staying with the show through 2001.

She served as one of the writers on the short-lived legal drama For the People in 2003 and then turned her attention to mystery novels – writing about magazine advice columnist Molly Forrester from 2004 to 2007. It was that same year, 2007, that she went back to the entertainment industry, working as a writer and creative consultant on the sci-fi series Flash Gordon.

A few years later, she wrote the 2011 TV movie Who Is Simon Miller? and then followed that up with co-writing the 2014 TV movie The Town That Came A-Courtin’. It was that same year when she was part of the writing team for the Hallmark Channel series When Calls the Heart.

Most recently, she has been serving as writer, series creator and executive producer of the new UP Channel drama Ties That Bind, who stars as Kellie Williams of The Practice and Army Wives fame.

Sheryl lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.