A Philadelphia-born screenwriter and producer, Meyers collaborates exclusively with her husband, Charles Shyer. Together since 1976 (they wed in 1995), the two first worked on the hit comedy "Private Benjamin" (1980). By this time, Shyer had already amassed a respectable resume writing for TV ("All in the Family", "The Odd Couple") and films ("Smokey and the Bandit" 1977, "Goin' South" and "House Calls" both 1978). "Private Benjamin"--the tale of spoiled brat Goldie Hawn in the Army--was the first (and last) enterprise of The Meyers-Shyer-Miller Production Company. The three principles (the
