• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante is an American television screenwriter best known for her work in daytime soap operas.Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including John Sayles's Return of the Secaucus 7. In 1985 she married writer Jack Shannon...
  
  
• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
  
  : Bradley Bell
  Bradley Bell
  Bradley Bell is an American television writer and producer. Bell is a six-time Daytime Emmy Award winner and is executive producer and head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera.-Career:...
  
  
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  : Dena Higley
  Dena Higley
  Dena Higley is an American television soap opera writer who lives in Los Angeles, California. She was head writer of Days of our Lives...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : Maria Arena Bell
  Maria Arena Bell
  Maria Arena Bell is an American novelist, television and freelance writer. She is currently the Head Writer and Executive Producer of CBS Daytime's The Young and the Restless.-Personal:...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Charles Pratt, Jr.
  Charles Pratt, Jr.
  Charles Pratt, Jr. is an American television writer, producer and director.-Daytime Soap Positions held:All My Children *Head Writer: August, 2008 - November, 2009...
  
  
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante is an American television screenwriter best known for her work in daytime soap operas.Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including John Sayles's Return of the Secaucus 7. In 1985 she married writer Jack Shannon...
  
   and David Kreizman
  David Kreizman
  David Kreizman is an American soap opera writer. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.Kreizman was a part of the writing team for the long running CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light since the late 1990s. In 2004, he was promoted to the position of Head Writer by newly appointed...
  
  
• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
  
  : Bradley Bell
  Bradley Bell
  Bradley Bell is an American television writer and producer. Bell is a six-time Daytime Emmy Award winner and is executive producer and head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera.-Career:...
  
  , Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
   and Michael Minnis
  Michael Minnis
  -Positions held:The Bold and the Beautiful* Co-Head Writer: 2004 - January 21, 2008, April 16, 2008 - presentThe Young and the Restless* Script Writer: 1994 - 2002-Awards and nominations:Daytime Emmy Award...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : Maria Arena Bell
  Maria Arena Bell
  Maria Arena Bell is an American novelist, television and freelance writer. She is currently the Head Writer and Executive Producer of CBS Daytime's The Young and the Restless.-Personal:...
  
  , Scott Hamner
  Scott Hamner
  Scott Hamner, son of Earl Hamner, is an American television writer. He was nominated for a WGA Award in 2006 for his work on CBSThe Young and the Restless.-Positions held:The Young and the Restless*Story Consultant: July 2006 - September 2006...
  
   and Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer is an American Daytime Emmy-winning screenwriter. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Personal life:...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  
• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  : Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza Jr. is an American television writer and producer, and formally held the position as Head Writer on the long running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He was fired by Brian Frons.-Personal life:...
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Ron Carlivati
  Ron Carlivati
  Ron Carlivati is an American soap opera writer born on November 25, 1968 .-Career:It was announced in the February 27 edition of Soap Opera Digest that Carlivati was promoted to Co-Head Writer of the ABC Daytime serial One Life to Live alongside Dena Higley. On June 4, 2007, Frank Valentini...
  
  

• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  - Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza Jr. is an American television writer and producer, and formally held the position as Head Writer on the long running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He was fired by Brian Frons.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  - David Kreizman
  David Kreizman
  David Kreizman is an American soap opera writer. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.Kreizman was a part of the writing team for the long running CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light since the late 1990s. In 2004, he was promoted to the position of Head Writer by newly appointed...
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Ron Carlivati
  Ron Carlivati
  Ron Carlivati is an American soap opera writer born on November 25, 1968 .-Career:It was announced in the February 27 edition of Soap Opera Digest that Carlivati was promoted to Co-Head Writer of the ABC Daytime serial One Life to Live alongside Dena Higley. On June 4, 2007, Frank Valentini...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  - Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza Jr. is an American television writer and producer, and formally held the position as Head Writer on the long running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He was fired by Brian Frons.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : David Kreizman
  David Kreizman
  David Kreizman is an American soap opera writer. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.Kreizman was a part of the writing team for the long running CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light since the late 1990s. In 2004, he was promoted to the position of Head Writer by newly appointed...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  - Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante is an American television screenwriter best known for her work in daytime soap operas.Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including John Sayles's Return of the Secaucus 7. In 1985 she married writer Jack Shannon...
  
  
• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  - Dena Higley
  Dena Higley
  Dena Higley is an American television soap opera writer who lives in Los Angeles, California. She was head writer of Days of our Lives...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer is an American Daytime Emmy-winning screenwriter. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Personal life:...
  
   (head writer); Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante is an American television screenwriter best known for her work in daytime soap operas.Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including John Sayles's Return of the Secaucus 7. In 1985 she married writer Jack Shannon...
  
   (co-head writer); Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either co-head writer, associate head writer, or a breakdown writer on the shows he's worked on.-Positions held:Another World...
  
   (associate head writer); Charlotte Gibson
  Charlotte Gibson
  Charlotte Gibson is an American television soap opera writer. Gibson was hired as a Breakdown Writer on Days of our Lives by Hogan Sheffer. She attended New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1990...
  
   (associate head writer); Paula Cwikly
  Paula Cwikly
  Paula Cwikly is an American soap opera writer for the Daytime television serial The Young and the Restless. She was NBC Daytime's director of daytime programming.She is a 1982 graduate of the University of Dayton.Batz, Bob...
  
  ; Frederick Johnson
  Frederick Johnson (writer)
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer As the World Turns *Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton is an American daytime serial writer and an alumnus of Northwestern University. Her husband is acclaimed daytime serial writer Richard Culliton...
  
   (associate head writer); Courtney Sherman; Judith Donato; Lynn Martin
  Lynn Martin (writer)
  Lynn Martin is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:Another World* Script Writer As the World Turns* Script Writer The City* Script Writer...
  
  ; Judy Tate; Susan Dansby; Meg Kelly
  Meg Kelly
  Meg Kelly is an American television soap opera screenwriter who co-wrote Days of our Lives with Hogan Sheffer from October 2006 to January 2008. She has a son Named Thomas whose godfather is Hogan Sheffer. Meg, Tony, Tommy , and his sister sally live in Washington D.C...
  
  ; Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co- Head Writer: Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co-...
  
  ; Melissa Salmons
  Melissa Salmons
  -Positions held:*One Life to Live *The Young and the Restless * Liquid Television * Another World * Guiding Light * As the World Turns...
  
  ; Craig Heller
  Craig Heller
  Craig Heller is a physiologist and biologist, currently a professor at Stanford University. He has worked primarily on circadian rhythms and homeostasis...
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  - Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza Jr. is an American television writer and producer, and formally held the position as Head Writer on the long running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He was fired by Brian Frons.-Personal life:...
  
   and Charles Pratt, Jr.
  Charles Pratt, Jr.
  Charles Pratt, Jr. is an American television writer, producer and director.-Daytime Soap Positions held:All My Children *Head Writer: August, 2008 - November, 2009...
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  - David Kreizman
  David Kreizman
  David Kreizman is an American soap opera writer. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.Kreizman was a part of the writing team for the long running CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light since the late 1990s. In 2004, he was promoted to the position of Head Writer by newly appointed...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer is an American Daytime Emmy-winning screenwriter. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Personal life:...
  
   (Head Writer
  Head writer
  A head writer is a person who oversees the team of writers on a television or radio series. The title is common in the soap opera genre, as well as with sketch comedies and talk shows that feature monologues and comedy skits, but in prime time series this function is generally performed by an...
  
  ); Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante is an American television screenwriter best known for her work in daytime soap operas.Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including John Sayles's Return of the Secaucus 7. In 1985 she married writer Jack Shannon...
  
   (co-head writer); Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either co-head writer, associate head writer, or a breakdown writer on the shows he's worked on.-Positions held:Another World...
  
  ; Meg Kelly
  Meg Kelly
  Meg Kelly is an American television soap opera screenwriter who co-wrote Days of our Lives with Hogan Sheffer from October 2006 to January 2008. She has a son Named Thomas whose godfather is Hogan Sheffer. Meg, Tony, Tommy , and his sister sally live in Washington D.C...
  
  ; Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co- Head Writer: Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co-...
  
  ; Craig Heller
  Craig Heller
  Craig Heller is a physiologist and biologist, currently a professor at Stanford University. He has worked primarily on circadian rhythms and homeostasis...
  
  ; Tom Reilly; Charlotte Gibson
  Charlotte Gibson
  Charlotte Gibson is an American television soap opera writer. Gibson was hired as a Breakdown Writer on Days of our Lives by Hogan Sheffer. She attended New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1990...
  
  ; Susan Dansby; Mary Ryan; Courtney Sherman; Judith Donato; Judy Tate; Lynn Martin
  Lynn Martin (writer)
  Lynn Martin is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:Another World* Script Writer As the World Turns* Script Writer The City* Script Writer...
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  - Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer is an American Daytime Emmy-winning screenwriter. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Personal life:...
  
  
• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  
• Passions
  Passions
  Passions is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007 and on The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008....
  
  - James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer is an American Daytime Emmy-winning screenwriter. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Personal life:...
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  - Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  
• Passions
  Passions
  Passions is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007 and on The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008....
  
  - James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer
  Hogan Sheffer is an American Daytime Emmy-winning screenwriter. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Personal life:...
  
  

• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  
• Passions
  Passions
  Passions is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007 and on The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008....
  
  - James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist.- Background :This Emmy Award winning writer got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s when General Hospital's Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, quit the show with the entire writing team...
  
   (head writer); Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton is an American daytime serial writer and an alumnus of Northwestern University. Her husband is acclaimed daytime serial writer Richard Culliton...
  
   (co-head writer); Hal Corley
  Hal Corley
  -Career:Two of Hal's plays, "An Ounce of Prevention" and "Finding Donis Anne," have been widely performed...
  
   (associate head writer); Stephen Demorest
  Stephen Demorest
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008Another World*Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999As the World Turns*Associate Head Writer...
  
   (associate head writer); Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:All My Children*Screenwriter: 1985 - 1997, October 2001 - October 17, 2007*Script Editor: 1997 - 1999As the World Turns* Script Editor: 1999 - 2000...
  
  ; Jeff Beldner
  Jeff Beldner
  -Positions held:All My Children *Script Editor: May 14, 2004 - January 14, 2008, March 19, 2008–present*Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1998, September 17, 2001 - May 2004*Script Writer: 1991 - 1994*Writer's Assistant: 1989 - 1991...
  
  ; Susan Dansby; Judith Donato; Susan Kirshenbaum
  Susan Kirshenbaum
  -Positions held:* Writer on All My Children; , As the World Turns , and Days of our Lives -Awards and nominations:...
  
  ; Lynn Martin
  Lynn Martin (writer)
  Lynn Martin is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:Another World* Script Writer As the World Turns* Script Writer The City* Script Writer...
  
  ; Lynda Myles
  Lynda Myles
  Lynda Myles is a British writer and producer. She served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival , director and curator of film at the Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Senior Vice–President at Columbia Pictures, Commissioning Editor for Drama at the BBC for...
  
  ; Louise Shaffer
  Louise Shaffer
  -Biography:Shaffer was born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, where she showed an interest in acting early on in her life. After finishing high school, she attended Connecticut College for Women, then Yale Drama School...
  
  ; Peggy Sloane
  Peggy Sloane
  Peggy Sloane was an American television soap opera script writer. She wrote on daytime for over 23 years, and her final year of active daytime work was back in 1999...
  
  ; Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  ; Addie Walsh
  Addie Walsh
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 2000 - April 2002; July 2003 - January 14, 2008 ; March 19, 2008 – PresentAs the World Turns*Co-Head Writer: 1997*Associate Head Writer: 1995 - 1999...
  
   (associate head writer); Lisa Connor
  Lisa Connor
  Lisa Connor is an American soap opera writer, producer, and director. She is currently a writer on the ABC Daytime drama, All My Children.-Positions held:All My Children*Script Writer: March 2010 – present...
  
  ; Christina Covino
  Christina Covino
  -Positions held:All My Children* Script Writer *Breakdown Writer As the World Turns* Script Writer *Breakdown Writer -Awards and nominations:Daytime Emmy Award...
  
  ; Ted Sullivan
  Ted Sullivan (director)
  Ted Sullivan is an American director/writer/producer/editor. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California Film Writing School. He wrote for daytime serials such as Guiding Light, As the World Turns and One Life to Live...
  
  ;
• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  - Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish is an American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.-Early career:...
  
  
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  - Sally Sussman Morina
  Sally Sussman Morina
  -Personal Life:She is married to Anthony Morina, a CBS Daytime director and producer. She was in the running to become the Head Writer of Loving in 1991.-Positions held:Freshman Dorm*WriterAnother World*Script Writer: 1996Days of our Lives...
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  : Robert Guza Jr. (Head Writer); Michele Val Jean
  Michele Val Jean
  Michele Val Jean is an American television writer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. Val Jean made television history when in 2000 she was promoted, alongside Elizabeth Korte, to the post of Head Writer; making her the first African American in the history of daytime television...
  
  ; Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey is an award-winning American television writer who graduated from Yale University.-Career:Among his accomplishments, Mulcahey wrote The Bold and the Beautifuls 5,000th episode. In a recent interview, he acknowledged his close friendships with CBS Daytime's Senior Vice President...
  
  ; Elizabeth Korte
  Elizabeth Korte
  Elizabeth Korte is an American television writer for the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital.- Positions held :General Hospital*Occasional Breakdown Writer: 2005 - 2008*Script Editor: 2002 - January 3, 2008, March 17, 2008 – present...
  
  ; Mary Ryan; Stephen Demorest
  Stephen Demorest
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008Another World*Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999As the World Turns*Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; Garin Wolf
  Garin Wolf
  -WGA Strike:During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Wolf chose Financial Core Status with the Writers Guild of America, stepping in for robert Guza Jr...
  
  ; Craig Heller
  Craig Heller
  Craig Heller is a physiologist and biologist, currently a professor at Stanford University. He has worked primarily on circadian rhythms and homeostasis...
  
  ; Bill Levinson; Michael Quinn
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  - James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten
  James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten
  James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten are American television writers, primarily working on soap operas. The duo have worked together for over 20 years starting on the prime-time soap Dynasty...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

1998, 25th Daytime Emmy Awards

25th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 25th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1998 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year .Winners in each category are in bold.-Outstanding Drama Series:...

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  ; Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  ; Hal Corley
  Hal Corley
  -Career:Two of Hal's plays, "An Ounce of Prevention" and "Finding Donis Anne," have been widely performed...
  
  ; Victor Miller
  Victor Miller (writer)
  Victor Miller or Victor B. Miller is an American writer for film and television. Perhaps his best known and most acknowledged work is his script for the first Friday the 13th film, the popularity of which spawned a long series of sequels, none of which has his involvement, though he remains...
  
  ; Judith Donato; Kathleen Klein
  Kathleen Klein
  -Staff writer:*All My Children *Another World *Guiding Light -Awards and nominations:*Writers Guild of America Award...
  
  ; Caroline Franz
  Caroline Franz
  -Career:After graduating with a Masters' degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children'...
  
  ; Frederick Johnson
  Frederick Johnson (writer)
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer As the World Turns *Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; Jeff Beldner
  Jeff Beldner
  -Positions held:All My Children *Script Editor: May 14, 2004 - January 14, 2008, March 19, 2008–present*Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1998, September 17, 2001 - May 2004*Script Writer: 1991 - 1994*Writer's Assistant: 1989 - 1991...
  
  ; Christina Covino
  Christina Covino
  -Positions held:All My Children* Script Writer *Breakdown Writer As the World Turns* Script Writer *Breakdown Writer -Awards and nominations:Daytime Emmy Award...
  
  ; Peggy Sloane
  Peggy Sloane
  Peggy Sloane was an American television soap opera script writer. She wrote on daytime for over 23 years, and her final year of active daytime work was back in 1999...
  
  ; Craig Carlson
  Craig Carlson
  -Positions held:All My Children*Breakdown Writer Another World*Co-Head Writer *Breakdown Writer Capitol...
  
  ; Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:All My Children*Screenwriter: 1985 - 1997, October 2001 - October 17, 2007*Script Editor: 1997 - 1999As the World Turns* Script Editor: 1999 - 2000...
  
  ; Michelle Patrick
  Michelle Patrick
  Michelle Patrick is an African American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 17 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; Bettina F. Bradbury
  Bettina F. Bradbury
  Bettina F. Bradbury is an award-winning American television soap opera screenwriter. She is the daughter of American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.-Positions held:*Days of our Lives...
  
  ; Jane Owen Murphy; Charlotte Gibson
  Charlotte Gibson
  Charlotte Gibson is an American television soap opera writer. Gibson was hired as a Breakdown Writer on Days of our Lives by Hogan Sheffer. She attended New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1990...
  
  
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  - James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  : Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton is an American television writer known for his work on soap operas. He has won four Writers Guild of America Awards, including one as a Head Writer, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University...
  
  ; Janet Iacobuzio
  Janet Iacobuzio
  Janet Iacobuzio is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 18 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Associate Head Writer: 1993-1994 , 2001 - 2003...
  
  ; Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either co-head writer, associate head writer, or a breakdown writer on the shows he's worked on.-Positions held:Another World...
  
  ; Michele Val Jean
  Michele Val Jean
  Michele Val Jean is an American television writer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. Val Jean made television history when in 2000 she was promoted, alongside Elizabeth Korte, to the post of Head Writer; making her the first African American in the history of daytime television...
  
  ; Garin Wolf
  Garin Wolf
  -WGA Strike:During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Wolf chose Financial Core Status with the Writers Guild of America, stepping in for robert Guza Jr...
  
  ; Courtney Sherman; Mary Ryan; Lynda Myles
  Lynda Myles
  Lynda Myles is a British writer and producer. She served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival , director and curator of film at the Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Senior Vice–President at Columbia Pictures, Commissioning Editor for Drama at the BBC for...
  
  ; Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey is an award-winning American television writer who graduated from Yale University.-Career:Among his accomplishments, Mulcahey wrote The Bold and the Beautifuls 5,000th episode. In a recent interview, he acknowledged his close friendships with CBS Daytime's Senior Vice President...
  
  ; Bill Levinson; Elizabeth Korte
  Elizabeth Korte
  Elizabeth Korte is an American television writer for the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital.- Positions held :General Hospital*Occasional Breakdown Writer: 2005 - 2008*Script Editor: 2002 - January 3, 2008, March 17, 2008 – present...
  
  ; Craig Heller
  Craig Heller
  Craig Heller is a physiologist and biologist, currently a professor at Stanford University. He has worked primarily on circadian rhythms and homeostasis...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  , Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  - James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

1996, 23rd Daytime Emmy Awards

23rd Daytime Emmy Awards

The 23rd Daytime Emmy Awards were held on May 22, 1996 on CBS to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year . At this ceremony, Erika Slezak set a then record with five Emmy Awards for Lead Actress. She would beat her own record in 2005. The telecast aired two-hours...

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  ; Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  ; Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish is an American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.-Early career:...
  
  ; Hal Corley
  Hal Corley
  -Career:Two of Hal's plays, "An Ounce of Prevention" and "Finding Donis Anne," have been widely performed...
  
   (writer); Frederick Johnson
  Frederick Johnson (writer)
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer As the World Turns *Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 24 years.-Positions held:All My Children * Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1996, 1998–2001...
  
   (writer); Jeff Beldner
  Jeff Beldner
  -Positions held:All My Children *Script Editor: May 14, 2004 - January 14, 2008, March 19, 2008–present*Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1998, September 17, 2001 - May 2004*Script Writer: 1991 - 1994*Writer's Assistant: 1989 - 1991...
  
   (writer); Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:All My Children*Screenwriter: 1985 - 1997, October 2001 - October 17, 2007*Script Editor: 1997 - 1999As the World Turns* Script Editor: 1999 - 2000...
  
  ; Elizabeth Smith; Michelle Patrick
  Michelle Patrick
  Michelle Patrick is an African American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 17 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; Bettina F. Bradbury
  Bettina F. Bradbury
  Bettina F. Bradbury is an award-winning American television soap opera screenwriter. She is the daughter of American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.-Positions held:*Days of our Lives...
  
   (writer); Judith Donato (writer); Kathleen Klein
  Kathleen Klein
  -Staff writer:*All My Children *Another World *Guiding Light -Awards and nominations:*Writers Guild of America Award...
  
  ; Ralph Wakefield; Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich is an American television soap opera script writer. He has been writing on daytime for over 23 years. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Positions held:All My Children...
  
  
• Another World
  Another World (TV series)
  Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
  
  : Tom King
  Tom King (writer)
  Tom King is an American television writer and story board artist best known for his work on the animated children's shows The Ren and Stimpy Show, SpongeBob SquarePants, Camp Lazlo, Chowder and The Fairly OddParents...
  
  , Craig Carlson
  Craig Carlson
  -Positions held:All My Children*Breakdown Writer Another World*Co-Head Writer *Breakdown Writer Capitol...
  
  , Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton is an American daytime serial writer and an alumnus of Northwestern University. Her husband is acclaimed daytime serial writer Richard Culliton...
  
  , Harding Lemay
  Harding Lemay
  Harding Lemay is an American screenwriter and playwright. Born near the Mohawk Indian reservation, where his mother grew up, he ran away to New York City at age 17, where he has lived ever since.-Career:...
  
  , Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  , Janet Iacobuzio
  Janet Iacobuzio
  Janet Iacobuzio is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 18 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Associate Head Writer: 1993-1994 , 2001 - 2003...
  
  , Victor Miller
  Victor Miller (writer)
  Victor Miller or Victor B. Miller is an American writer for film and television. Perhaps his best known and most acknowledged work is his script for the first Friday the 13th film, the popularity of which spawned a long series of sequels, none of which has his involvement, though he remains...
  
  , Samuel D. Ratcliffe
  Samuel D. Ratcliffe
  Samuel D. Ratcliffe was an Emmy-winning screenwriter for daytime television.He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Birmingham Southern College, moving to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as an actor. From 1968 until the mid-seventies, he appeared in commercials, films and theatre...
  
  , Shelly Altman
  Shelly Altman
  Shelly Altman is an American soap opera writer.-Positions held:Another World*Associate Head Writer: 1995 - 1999General Hospital*Writer: August 2011-Present, Co-Head Writer: October 24 2011-PresentOne Life to Live...
  
  , Elizabeth Snyder
  Elizabeth Snyder
  Elizabeth Snyder is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:Another World*Breakdown Writer: 1996*Script Writer: 1995The Bold and the Beautiful...
  
  , Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either co-head writer, associate head writer, or a breakdown writer on the shows he's worked on.-Positions held:Another World...
  
  , Peter Brash
  Peter Brash
  Peter Brash is an American television soap opera writer. He has written for soaps for over 25 years.Peter Brash was born in Boston, MA, and graduated in 1976 from Boston College. He appeared in the 1983 film "Without a Trace" with Judd Hirsch...
  
  , Sharon Epstein, Kathleen Kennedy
  Kathleen Kennedy
  Kathleen Kennedy may refer to:*Kathleen Kennedy *Kathleen Kennedy , American journalist, former news anchor for CNN Headline News*Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy...
  
  , Sofia Landon Geier
  Sofia Landon Geier
  Sofia Landon Geier is a television soap opera writer and actress. She is also credited as Sofia Landon or Sophia Landon...
  
  , Mimi Leahey
  Mimi Leahey
  Mimi Leahey is an American television soap opera script writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 20 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Script Editor Another World* Script Writer As the World Turns...
  
  , Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co- Head Writer: Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co-...
  
  , Kathy Ebel, Loren Segan, Michelle Poteet Lisanti
  Michelle Poteet Lisanti
  -Positions held:Another World*Screenwriter: 1995 - 1996Days of our Lives*Co-Head Writer: 1980 - 1981*Breakdown Writer: 1987 - 1994, June 11, 2009–presentGuiding Light*Screenwriter: 1984 - 1985One Life to Live...
  
  
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Juliet Law Packer
  Juliet Law Packer
  Juliet Law Packer is an American television writer. She graduated from Princeton University - 1974 and received a master's degree in film and television from Northwestern University - 1977...
  
  , Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton is an American television writer known for his work on soap operas. He has won four Writers Guild of America Awards, including one as a Head Writer, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University...
  
  , Garin Wolf
  Garin Wolf
  -WGA Strike:During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Wolf chose Financial Core Status with the Writers Guild of America, stepping in for robert Guza Jr...
  
  , Don Chastain
  Don Chastain
  Don Chastain was an American actor and screenwriter.He worked in television in Los Angeles and New York and toured the United States and Canada with major productions...
  
  , Christina Covino
  Christina Covino
  -Positions held:All My Children* Script Writer *Breakdown Writer As the World Turns* Script Writer *Breakdown Writer -Awards and nominations:Daytime Emmy Award...
  
  , Caroline Franz
  Caroline Franz
  -Career:After graduating with a Masters' degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children'...
  
  , Patti Dizenzo, Scott Hamner
  Scott Hamner
  Scott Hamner, son of Earl Hamner, is an American television writer. He was nominated for a WGA Award in 2006 for his work on CBSThe Young and the Restless.-Positions held:The Young and the Restless*Story Consultant: July 2006 - September 2006...
  
  , Susan Kirshenbaum
  Susan Kirshenbaum
  -Positions held:* Writer on All My Children; , As the World Turns , and Days of our Lives -Awards and nominations:...
  
  , John Kuntz
  John Kuntz
  John Kuntz is an American television writer and actor. He has written for Guiding Light and As the World Turns . He has been nominated for six Daytime Emmys and two WGA Awards. Kuntz has received an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award.-Sources:** * *********...
  
  , Meredith Post
  Meredith Post
  Meredith Post is an American television writer. When Douglas Marland died in 1993, she was in the running to become Head Writer of ATWT. That title went to Juliet Law Packer and Richard Backus.-Positions held:As the World Turns*Writer...
  
  , Mary Ryan, Addie Walsh
  Addie Walsh
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 2000 - April 2002; July 2003 - January 14, 2008 ; March 19, 2008 – PresentAs the World Turns*Co-Head Writer: 1997*Associate Head Writer: 1995 - 1999...
  
  , Lorin Wertheimer
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Michael Malone
  Michael Malone
  Michael Malone is an Emmy Award-winning American author and television writer, born in Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his work on the ABC Daytime drama One Life to Live, as well as for his best-selling works of fiction Handling Sin , Foolscap , and murder mystery First Lady...
  
  , Josh Griffith
  Josh Griffith
  -Career:During the WGA strike, he took over as Head Writer of CBS Daytimes The Young and the Restless. To do this, he accepted Financial core status with the WGA. Maria Arena Bell, a former writer at The Bold and the Beautiful and daughter-in-law of Y&R creator William J...
  
  , Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante is an American television screenwriter best known for her work in daytime soap operas.Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including John Sayles's Return of the Secaucus 7. In 1985 she married writer Jack Shannon...
  
  , Richard Backus
  Richard Backus
  Richard Backus is an American actor and television writer. He has been nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards for writing and one for acting.- Biography :...
  
  , David Colson
  David Colson
  David Colson is an American television writer, actor, and director.-Credits:*Days of our Lives *One Life to Live *Another World...
  
  , Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd 'Lucky' Gold is an American screen writer and playwright.Gold’s plays have been produced at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the McCarter Theater and others. He wrote numerous film scripts for Miramax and was script doctor on Marvin's Room and Shakespeare in Love...
  
  , Becky Cole, Mike Cohen
  Mike Cohen (writer)
  Mike Cohen is an American television soap opera script writer.-Positions held:As the World Turns* Script Writer: 200* - March 2009Days of our Lives* Script Writer: 1987 - 1991, December 22, 2006 - January 2008, April 2008 – present...
  
  , Lisa Connor
  Lisa Connor
  Lisa Connor is an American soap opera writer, producer, and director. She is currently a writer on the ABC Daytime drama, All My Children.-Positions held:All My Children*Script Writer: March 2010 – present...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  , Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish is an American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.-Early career:...
  
  ; Hal Corley
  Hal Corley
  -Career:Two of Hal's plays, "An Ounce of Prevention" and "Finding Donis Anne," have been widely performed...
  
  , Frederick Johnson
  Frederick Johnson (writer)
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer As the World Turns *Associate Head Writer...
  
  , N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 24 years.-Positions held:All My Children * Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1996, 1998–2001...
  
  , Jeff Beldner
  Jeff Beldner
  -Positions held:All My Children *Script Editor: May 14, 2004 - January 14, 2008, March 19, 2008–present*Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1998, September 17, 2001 - May 2004*Script Writer: 1991 - 1994*Writer's Assistant: 1989 - 1991...
  
  , Karen Lewis, Elizabeth Smith, Michelle Patrick
  Michelle Patrick
  Michelle Patrick is an African American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 17 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Associate Head Writer...
  
  , Bettina F. Bradbury
  Bettina F. Bradbury
  Bettina F. Bradbury is an award-winning American television soap opera screenwriter. She is the daughter of American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.-Positions held:*Days of our Lives...
  
  , Ralph Wakefield, Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich is an American television soap opera script writer. He has been writing on daytime for over 23 years. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Positions held:All My Children...
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  : Claire Labine
  Claire Labine
  -Early career:Although she originally aspired to be an actress, Labine eventually became a critically acclaimed writer. She attended the University of Kentucky where her major was journalism, but later she switched to playwriting major at Columbia University’s School of Dramatic Arts...
  
  ; Matthew Labine
  Matthew Labine
  Matthew Labine is an American soap opera writer, the son of Claire Labine and the brother of Eleanor Labine Mancusi.In spring 1996, Claire Labine was offered the Head Writer role at CBS Daytime's As the World Turns but turned it down because she and Matthew Labine were trying to get Heart And Soul...
  
  ; Meg Bennett
  Meg Bennett
  Meg Bennett is an American television soap opera writer and occasional actress. She is married to General Hospital Head Writer Robert Guza, Jr.-Early life:...
  
  ; Michele Val Jean
  Michele Val Jean
  Michele Val Jean is an American television writer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. Val Jean made television history when in 2000 she was promoted, alongside Elizabeth Korte, to the post of Head Writer; making her the first African American in the history of daytime television...
  
  ; Lewis Arlt
  Lewis Arlt
  Lewis Arlt is an American director, actor, and writer. He has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy , and 4 Writers Guild of America Awards- won three times....
  
  ; Stephanie Braxton
  Stephanie Braxton
  Stephanie Braxton is an American television writer, playwright and actress. She married Dan Hamilton in 1970, but they are currently divorced...
  
  ; Eleanor Labine
  Eleanor Labine
  Eleanor Labine is an American TV writer, the daughter of Claire Labine and the sister of Matthew Labine.-Positions held:Another World*Associate Head Writer General Hospital*Associate Head Writer Guiding Light...
  
  ; Ralph Ellis; Karen Harris
  Karen Harris (writer)
  Karen Harris is an American television writer for the ABC Daytime serial General Hospital.-Career:During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, she chose not to accept Financial Core Status....
  
  ; Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker is an American television writer.Pinsker co-wrote the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary, based in the AIDS storyline between characters Stone Cates and Robin Scorpio....
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Michael Malone
  Michael Malone
  Michael Malone is an Emmy Award-winning American author and television writer, born in Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his work on the ABC Daytime drama One Life to Live, as well as for his best-selling works of fiction Handling Sin , Foolscap , and murder mystery First Lady...
  
  , Josh Griffith
  Josh Griffith
  -Career:During the WGA strike, he took over as Head Writer of CBS Daytimes The Young and the Restless. To do this, he accepted Financial core status with the WGA. Maria Arena Bell, a former writer at The Bold and the Beautiful and daughter-in-law of Y&R creator William J...
  
  , Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante is an American television screenwriter best known for her work in daytime soap operas.Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including John Sayles's Return of the Secaucus 7. In 1985 she married writer Jack Shannon...
  
  , David Colson
  David Colson
  David Colson is an American television writer, actor, and director.-Credits:*Days of our Lives *One Life to Live *Another World...
  
  , Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd 'Lucky' Gold is an American screen writer and playwright.Gold’s plays have been produced at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the McCarter Theater and others. He wrote numerous film scripts for Miramax and was script doctor on Marvin's Room and Shakespeare in Love...
  
  , Becky Cole, Mike Cohen
  Mike Cohen (writer)
  Mike Cohen is an American television soap opera script writer.-Positions held:As the World Turns* Script Writer: 200* - March 2009Days of our Lives* Script Writer: 1987 - 1991, December 22, 2006 - January 2008, April 2008 – present...
  
  , Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either co-head writer, associate head writer, or a breakdown writer on the shows he's worked on.-Positions held:Another World...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  ; Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
  , Jerry Birn
  Jerry Birn
  Jerry Birn was an American television soap opera writer. He was married to actress Patty Weaver from 1994 until his death aged 86; his daughter is Laura Bryan Birn....
  
  , John F. Smith
  John F. Smith
  John F. Smith is an American soap opera writer and producer. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working....
  
  , Trent Jones
  Trent Jones
  Trent Jones is an American soap opera writer, singer, and actor. His wife is Francesca Jones, a freelance artist.He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs...
  
  , Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald was an American TV writer scripting the daytime television serial, The Young and the Restless.-Life and career:...
  
  , Janice Ferri
  Janice Ferri Esser
  Janice Ferri Esser is an American writer on the daytime television serials The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Positions held:The Young and the Restless...
  
  , Rex M. Best
  Rex M. Best
  Rex M. Best is an award winning American soap opera writer. He was a staff script writer on "The Young and the Restless" for fifteen years . He currently writes scripts for Y&R's sister soap, "The Bold and the Beautiful." He has won four Emmys and a Writers Guild Award. He currently lives in...
  
  , Jim Houghton
  Jim Houghton
  James "Jim" Houghton is an American actor and writer.Houghton was an original castmember of the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, in which he played Greg Foster. His most prominent role is that of Kenny Ward on the long-running prime time soap opera Knots Landing, which he played...
  
  , Michael Minnis
  Michael Minnis
  -Positions held:The Bold and the Beautiful* Co-Head Writer: 2004 - January 21, 2008, April 16, 2008 - presentThe Young and the Restless* Script Writer: 1994 - 2002-Awards and nominations:Daytime Emmy Award...
  
  

• Another World
  Another World (TV series)
  Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
  
  
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  - James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Michael Malone
  Michael Malone
  Michael Malone is an Emmy Award-winning American author and television writer, born in Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his work on the ABC Daytime drama One Life to Live, as well as for his best-selling works of fiction Handling Sin , Foolscap , and murder mystery First Lady...
  
  , Josh Griffith
  Josh Griffith
  -Career:During the WGA strike, he took over as Head Writer of CBS Daytimes The Young and the Restless. To do this, he accepted Financial core status with the WGA. Maria Arena Bell, a former writer at The Bold and the Beautiful and daughter-in-law of Y&R creator William J...
  
  , Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante
  Jean Passanante is an American television screenwriter best known for her work in daytime soap operas.Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including John Sayles's Return of the Secaucus 7. In 1985 she married writer Jack Shannon...
  
  , Susan Bedsow Horgan, Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either co-head writer, associate head writer, or a breakdown writer on the shows he's worked on.-Positions held:Another World...
  
  , Becky Cole, David Colson
  David Colson
  David Colson is an American television writer, actor, and director.-Credits:*Days of our Lives *One Life to Live *Another World...
  
  , Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd 'Lucky' Gold is an American screen writer and playwright.Gold’s plays have been produced at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the McCarter Theater and others. He wrote numerous film scripts for Miramax and was script doctor on Marvin's Room and Shakespeare in Love...
  
  , David Smilow
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  ,

• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland was an American actor and writer of soap operas.-Career:He began his soap opera career as an actor, appearing on the Irna Phillips series The Brighter Day and As the World Turns. He also did odd jobs on the side as a director for small theatre groups...
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee is an American soap opera writer. She was Head Writer of Guiding Light from 1990 to 1994. Her time at the helm of GL is often considered a golden period for the show....
  
  , Stephen Demorest
  Stephen Demorest
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008Another World*Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999As the World Turns*Associate Head Writer...
  
  , Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  , James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
   (Head Writer
  Head writer
  A head writer is a person who oversees the team of writers on a television or radio series. The title is common in the soap opera genre, as well as with sketch comedies and talk shows that feature monologues and comedy skits, but in prime time series this function is generally performed by an...
  
  s; Nancy Williams Watt
  Nancy Williams Watt
  -Positions Held:All My Children*Secretary to Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Jack Wood, Lorraine Broderick, Caroline Franz et al Days of our Lives*Script Writer: September 16, 2011 - presentSearch for Tomorrow...
  
  , Michael Conforti
  Michael Conforti
  Michael Conforti is an American television writer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He played Jeremy Rhodes on Edge of Night, and Wally Bacon on Guiding Light. Conforti later became a writer for the soap opera Guiding Light. He became a Co-Head Writer for All My Children and Guiding...
  
  , Bill Elverman, Barbara Esensten, Roger Newman
  Roger Newman
  Roger Newman was a British born-American soap opera actor and writer. He was born in London, England and died in New York City, New York.Newman began his career as a child in radio...
  
  , James Harmon Brown, Trent Jones
  Trent Jones
  Trent Jones is an American soap opera writer, singer, and actor. His wife is Francesca Jones, a freelance artist.He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs...
  
  , N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 24 years.-Positions held:All My Children * Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1996, 1998–2001...
  
  , Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich is an American television soap opera script writer. He has been writing on daytime for over 23 years. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Positions held:All My Children...
  
  , Sally Mandel, Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey is an award-winning American television writer who graduated from Yale University.-Career:Among his accomplishments, Mulcahey wrote The Bold and the Beautifuls 5,000th episode. In a recent interview, he acknowledged his close friendships with CBS Daytime's Senior Vice President...
  
  , Dorothy Ann Purser
  Dorothy Ann Purser
  Dorothy Ann Purser is a screenwriter who was born in Hammond, Louisiana. Purser is best known for her work on the television series Days of our Lives as the head writer and co-writer, and on the television series Guiding Light as head writer...
  
  , Peggy Schibi
  Peggy Schibi
  Peggy Schibi is an American television soap opera script writer. She has been writing on daytime for over 24 years.-Positions held:Another World* Script Writer: 1987 - 1988Days of our Lives...
  
  , Courtney Simon
  Courtney Simon
  Courtney Simon is an American writer and actress. Simon is sometimes credited as "Courtney Sherman" or "Courtney Sherman Simon".- Acting roles :...
  
  , Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  , Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish is an American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.-Early career:...
  
  , Hal Corley
  Hal Corley
  -Career:Two of Hal's plays, "An Ounce of Prevention" and "Finding Donis Anne," have been widely performed...
  
  , Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton is an American television writer known for his work on soap operas. He has won four Writers Guild of America Awards, including one as a Head Writer, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University...
  
  , Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  , Susan Kirshenbaum
  Susan Kirshenbaum
  -Positions held:* Writer on All My Children; , As the World Turns , and Days of our Lives -Awards and nominations:...
  
  , Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:All My Children*Screenwriter: 1985 - 1997, October 2001 - October 17, 2007*Script Editor: 1997 - 1999As the World Turns* Script Editor: 1999 - 2000...
  
  , Elizabeth Smith, Kathleen Klein
  Kathleen Klein
  -Staff writer:*All My Children *Another World *Guiding Light -Awards and nominations:*Writers Guild of America Award...
  
  , Michelle Patrick
  Michelle Patrick
  Michelle Patrick is an African American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 17 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Associate Head Writer...
  
  , Jeff Beldner
  Jeff Beldner
  -Positions held:All My Children *Script Editor: May 14, 2004 - January 14, 2008, March 19, 2008–present*Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1998, September 17, 2001 - May 2004*Script Writer: 1991 - 1994*Writer's Assistant: 1989 - 1991...
  
  , Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  , Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
   and Gillian Spencer
  Gillian Spencer
  Gillian Spencer is an American soap opera actress and writer.She has had roles on soaps such as The Edge of Night, The Secret Storm, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and on One Life to Live as the original Victoria Lord/Niki Smith 1968-1970.Spencer appeared in the 1968 feature comedy What's So...
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  , Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee is an American soap opera writer. She was Head Writer of Guiding Light from 1990 to 1994. Her time at the helm of GL is often considered a golden period for the show....
  
  , Stephen Demorest
  Stephen Demorest
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008Another World*Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999As the World Turns*Associate Head Writer...
  
  , James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
  , Nancy Williams Watt
  Nancy Williams Watt
  -Positions Held:All My Children*Secretary to Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Jack Wood, Lorraine Broderick, Caroline Franz et al Days of our Lives*Script Writer: September 16, 2011 - presentSearch for Tomorrow...
  
  , Trent Jones
  Trent Jones
  Trent Jones is an American soap opera writer, singer, and actor. His wife is Francesca Jones, a freelance artist.He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs...
  
  , Dorothy Ann Purser
  Dorothy Ann Purser
  Dorothy Ann Purser is a screenwriter who was born in Hammond, Louisiana. Purser is best known for her work on the television series Days of our Lives as the head writer and co-writer, and on the television series Guiding Light as head writer...
  
  , N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 24 years.-Positions held:All My Children * Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1996, 1998–2001...
  
  , Michael Conforti
  Michael Conforti
  Michael Conforti is an American television writer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He played Jeremy Rhodes on Edge of Night, and Wally Bacon on Guiding Light. Conforti later became a writer for the soap opera Guiding Light. He became a Co-Head Writer for All My Children and Guiding...
  
  , Bill Elverman, Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich is an American television soap opera script writer. He has been writing on daytime for over 23 years. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Positions held:All My Children...
  
  , Melissa Salmons
  Melissa Salmons
  -Positions held:*One Life to Live *The Young and the Restless * Liquid Television * Another World * Guiding Light * As the World Turns...
  
   and Peggy Schibi
  Peggy Schibi
  Peggy Schibi is an American television soap opera script writer. She has been writing on daytime for over 24 years.-Positions held:Another World* Script Writer: 1987 - 1988Days of our Lives...
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Michael Malone
  Michael Malone
  Michael Malone is an Emmy Award-winning American author and television writer, born in Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his work on the ABC Daytime drama One Life to Live, as well as for his best-selling works of fiction Handling Sin , Foolscap , and murder mystery First Lady...
  
  , Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest is an American daytime serial writer.She began her career as an actress both onstage and on television. Her acting credits include a contract role as the first Abby Cameron on The Edge of Night from 1965-1966....
  
  , Craig Carlson
  Craig Carlson
  -Positions held:All My Children*Breakdown Writer Another World*Co-Head Writer *Breakdown Writer Capitol...
  
  , Josh Griffith
  Josh Griffith
  -Career:During the WGA strike, he took over as Head Writer of CBS Daytimes The Young and the Restless. To do this, he accepted Financial core status with the WGA. Maria Arena Bell, a former writer at The Bold and the Beautiful and daughter-in-law of Y&R creator William J...
  
  , Alan Bernstein
  Alan Bernstein
  Alan Bernstein, is the inaugural executive director of the , an alliance of independent organizations around the world dedicated to accelerating the development of a preventive HIV vaccine.As Executive Director, Dr...
  
  , Dorothy Goldstone, Eleanor Mancusi
  Eleanor Labine
  Eleanor Labine is an American TV writer, the daughter of Claire Labine and the sister of Matthew Labine.-Positions held:Another World*Associate Head Writer General Hospital*Associate Head Writer Guiding Light...
  
  , Mel Brez
  Mel Brez
  -Positions held:The Doctors* Head Writer: 1978 Another World* Script Writer: 1974, 1995As the World Turns* Co-Head Writer: 1997* Associate Head Writer: 1997, 1998Days of our Lives* Associate Head Writer: 1993 - 1994...
  
  , Ethel M. Brez, Jeanne Glynn
  Jeanne Glynn
  Jeanne Glynn was an Emmy-nominated writer. Jeanne Glynn died of cancer at age 75. Glynn was an actress who turned to writing. Her writing earned her five Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Glynn's nominations came for her work on General Hospital, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, One Life to Live...
  
  , Jeffrey Sweet
  Jeffrey Sweet
  Jeffrey Sweet is an American writer, journalist, songwriter and theatre historian. Sweet's father was the late James Sweet, a science writer for the University of Chicago who aided Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren in drafting two anti-McCarthy speeches; his mother is violinist Vivian...
  
  , Neal Bell, Becky Cole, Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd 'Lucky' Gold is an American screen writer and playwright.Gold’s plays have been produced at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the McCarter Theater and others. He wrote numerous film scripts for Miramax and was script doctor on Marvin's Room and Shakespeare in Love...
  
   and William M. Hoffman
  William M. Hoffman
  William Moses Hoffman is an American playwright, editor and educator.- Biography :Born in New York City, New York, United States, Hoffman's earliest works either were mounted in small, experimental off-off-Broadway theaters in New York City or remain unproduced.It was not until 1985 that he...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  , Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
  , Jerry Birn
  Jerry Birn
  Jerry Birn was an American television soap opera writer. He was married to actress Patty Weaver from 1994 until his death aged 86; his daughter is Laura Bryan Birn....
  
  , John F. Smith
  John F. Smith
  John F. Smith is an American soap opera writer and producer. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working....
  
  , Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald was an American TV writer scripting the daytime television serial, The Young and the Restless.-Life and career:...
  
  , Rex M. Best
  Rex M. Best
  Rex M. Best is an award winning American soap opera writer. He was a staff script writer on "The Young and the Restless" for fifteen years . He currently writes scripts for Y&R's sister soap, "The Bold and the Beautiful." He has won four Emmys and a Writers Guild Award. He currently lives in...
  
  , Janice Ferri
  Janice Ferri Esser
  Janice Ferri Esser is an American writer on the daytime television serials The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Positions held:The Young and the Restless...
  
  , Frederick Johnson
  Frederick Johnson (writer)
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer As the World Turns *Associate Head Writer...
  
   and Jim Houghton
  Jim Houghton
  James "Jim" Houghton is an American actor and writer.Houghton was an original castmember of the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, in which he played Greg Foster. His most prominent role is that of Kenny Ward on the long-running prime time soap opera Knots Landing, which he played...
  
  

1991, 18th Daytime Emmy Awards

18th Daytime Emmy Awards

-Outstanding Drama Series:All My ChildrenAs the World TurnsGuiding LightThe Young and the Restless-Outstanding Lead Actor:*Peter Bergman ...

• Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland was an American actor and writer of soap operas.-Career:He began his soap opera career as an actor, appearing on the Irna Phillips series The Brighter Day and As the World Turns. He also did odd jobs on the side as a director for small theatre groups...
  
  
• John Kuntz
  John Kuntz
  John Kuntz is an American television writer and actor. He has written for Guiding Light and As the World Turns . He has been nominated for six Daytime Emmys and two WGA Awards. Kuntz has received an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award.-Sources:** * *********...
  
  
• Juliet Law Packer
  Juliet Law Packer
  Juliet Law Packer is an American television writer. She graduated from Princeton University - 1974 and received a master's degree in film and television from Northwestern University - 1977...
  
  
• Meredith Post
  Meredith Post
  Meredith Post is an American television writer. When Douglas Marland died in 1993, she was in the running to become Head Writer of ATWT. That title went to Juliet Law Packer and Richard Backus.-Positions held:As the World Turns*Writer...
  
  
• Patti Dizenzo
• Caroline Franz
  Caroline Franz
  -Career:After graduating with a Masters' degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children'...
  
  
• Stephanie Braxton
  Stephanie Braxton
  Stephanie Braxton is an American television writer, playwright and actress. She married Dan Hamilton in 1970, but they are currently divorced...
  
  
• Nancy Ford
• Richard Backus
  Richard Backus
  Richard Backus is an American actor and television writer. He has been nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards for writing and one for acting.- Biography :...
  
  

• William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
  
• Jerry Birn
  Jerry Birn
  Jerry Birn was an American television soap opera writer. He was married to actress Patty Weaver from 1994 until his death aged 86; his daughter is Laura Bryan Birn....
  
  
• John F. Smith
  John F. Smith
  John F. Smith is an American soap opera writer and producer. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working....
  
  
• James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
  
• Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald was an American TV writer scripting the daytime television serial, The Young and the Restless.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Rex M. Best
  Rex M. Best
  Rex M. Best is an award winning American soap opera writer. He was a staff script writer on "The Young and the Restless" for fifteen years . He currently writes scripts for Y&R's sister soap, "The Bold and the Beautiful." He has won four Emmys and a Writers Guild Award. He currently lives in...
  
  
• Enid Powell

1990, 17th Daytime Emmy Awards

17th Daytime Emmy Awards

-Outstanding Drama Series:All My ChildrenGuiding LightSanta BarbaraThe Young and the Restless-Outstanding Lead Actor:*David Canary...

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  , Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  , Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  , Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest is an American daytime serial writer.She began her career as an actress both onstage and on television. Her acting credits include a contract role as the first Abby Cameron on The Edge of Night from 1965-1966....
  
  , Susan Kirshenbaum
  Susan Kirshenbaum
  -Positions held:* Writer on All My Children; , As the World Turns , and Days of our Lives -Awards and nominations:...
  
  , Kathleen Klein
  Kathleen Klein
  -Staff writer:*All My Children *Another World *Guiding Light -Awards and nominations:*Writers Guild of America Award...
  
  , Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:All My Children*Screenwriter: 1985 - 1997, October 2001 - October 17, 2007*Script Editor: 1997 - 1999As the World Turns* Script Editor: 1999 - 2000...
  
  , Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish is an American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.-Early career:...
  
  , Victor Miller
  Victor Miller (writer)
  Victor Miller or Victor B. Miller is an American writer for film and television. Perhaps his best known and most acknowledged work is his script for the first Friday the 13th film, the popularity of which spawned a long series of sequels, none of which has his involvement, though he remains...
  
  , Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co- Head Writer: Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co-...
  
  , Elizabeth Smith, Gillian Spencer
  Gillian Spencer
  Gillian Spencer is an American soap opera actress and writer.She has had roles on soaps such as The Edge of Night, The Secret Storm, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and on One Life to Live as the original Victoria Lord/Niki Smith 1968-1970.Spencer appeared in the 1968 feature comedy What's So...
  
  , Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Pamela K. Long, Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee is an American soap opera writer. She was Head Writer of Guiding Light from 1990 to 1994. Her time at the helm of GL is often considered a golden period for the show....
  
  , Trent Jones
  Trent Jones
  Trent Jones is an American soap opera writer, singer, and actor. His wife is Francesca Jones, a freelance artist.He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs...
  
  ; Jeff Ryder (story consultant
  Creative consultant
  Creative consultant is a credit that has - particularly in the past - been given to screenwriters who have “doctored” a movie screenplay. It is often given by producers in lieu of official credit. Those given this credit in the television field work closely with an Executive Producer, Head...
  
  ); Stephen Demorest
  Stephen Demorest
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008Another World*Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999As the World Turns*Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; Garrett Foster; Peter Brash
  Peter Brash
  Peter Brash is an American television soap opera writer. He has written for soaps for over 25 years.Peter Brash was born in Boston, MA, and graduated in 1976 from Boston College. He appeared in the 1983 film "Without a Trace" with Judd Hirsch...
  
  ; Nancy Williams Watt
  Nancy Williams Watt
  -Positions Held:All My Children*Secretary to Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Jack Wood, Lorraine Broderick, Caroline Franz et al Days of our Lives*Script Writer: September 16, 2011 - presentSearch for Tomorrow...
  
  ; Patty Gideon Sloan (playwright
  Playwright
  A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
  
  ); Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton is an American television writer known for his work on soap operas. He has won four Writers Guild of America Awards, including one as a Head Writer, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University...
  
  ; N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 24 years.-Positions held:All My Children * Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1996, 1998–2001...
  
  ; Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich is an American television soap opera script writer. He has been writing on daytime for over 23 years. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Positions held:All My Children...
  
  ; Melissa Salmons
  Melissa Salmons
  -Positions held:*One Life to Live *The Young and the Restless * Liquid Television * Another World * Guiding Light * As the World Turns...
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : S. Michael Schnessel, Craig Carlson
  Craig Carlson
  -Positions held:All My Children*Breakdown Writer Another World*Co-Head Writer *Breakdown Writer Capitol...
  
  , Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist.- Background :This Emmy Award winning writer got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s when General Hospital's Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, quit the show with the entire writing team...
  
  , Ethel Brez
  Ethel Brez
  -Positions held:Another World * Script Writer Days of our Lives* Associate Head Writer One Life to Live* Associate Head Writer Passions -Positions held:Another World (hired by Harding Lemay)* Script Writer (1974)Days of our Lives* Associate Head Writer (1993–1994)One Life to Live* Associate Head...
  
  , Mel Brez
  Mel Brez
  -Positions held:The Doctors* Head Writer: 1978 Another World* Script Writer: 1974, 1995As the World Turns* Co-Head Writer: 1997* Associate Head Writer: 1997, 1998Days of our Lives* Associate Head Writer: 1993 - 1994...
  
  , Addie Walsh
  Addie Walsh
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 2000 - April 2002; July 2003 - January 14, 2008 ; March 19, 2008 – PresentAs the World Turns*Co-Head Writer: 1997*Associate Head Writer: 1995 - 1999...
  
  , Dorothy Ann Purser
  Dorothy Ann Purser
  Dorothy Ann Purser is a screenwriter who was born in Hammond, Louisiana. Purser is best known for her work on the television series Days of our Lives as the head writer and co-writer, and on the television series Guiding Light as head writer...
  
  , Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd 'Lucky' Gold is an American screen writer and playwright.Gold’s plays have been produced at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the McCarter Theater and others. He wrote numerous film scripts for Miramax and was script doctor on Marvin's Room and Shakespeare in Love...
  
  , Norman Hart, Lanie Bertram
• Santa Barbara
  Santa Barbara (TV series)
  Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolved around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California...
  
  : Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey was an award-winning American writer known particularly for her work as a screenwriter and opera librettist....
  
  , Charles Pratt Jr., Robert Guza Jr., Sam Hall
  Sam Hall (writer)
  Gordon Russell and Sam Hall were a pair of writers known for their work in daytime soap operas.-Dark Shadows:They are best known for their works on Dark Shadows and One Life to Live...
  
  , Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey is an award-winning American television writer who graduated from Yale University.-Career:Among his accomplishments, Mulcahey wrote The Bold and the Beautifuls 5,000th episode. In a recent interview, he acknowledged his close friendships with CBS Daytime's Senior Vice President...
  
  , Courtney Simon
  Courtney Simon
  Courtney Simon is an American writer and actress. Simon is sometimes credited as "Courtney Sherman" or "Courtney Sherman Simon".- Acting roles :...
  
  , Gary Tomlin
  Gary Tomlin
  -Career:Tomlin's career on daytime serials began in 1973 when he was cast on NBC's Search for Tomorrow as Bruce Carson. He also made a guest appearance on "The Nightwalker" episode of the Waltons . He later appeared as Morgan Simpson on the NBC soap opera Another World in 1979...
  
  , Lynda Myles
  Lynda Myles
  Lynda Myles is a British writer and producer. She served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival , director and curator of film at the Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Senior Vice–President at Columbia Pictures, Commissioning Editor for Drama at the BBC for...
  
  , Josh Griffith
  Josh Griffith
  -Career:During the WGA strike, he took over as Head Writer of CBS Daytimes The Young and the Restless. To do this, he accepted Financial core status with the WGA. Maria Arena Bell, a former writer at The Bold and the Beautiful and daughter-in-law of Y&R creator William J...
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  , Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
  , John F. Smith
  John F. Smith
  John F. Smith is an American soap opera writer and producer. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working....
  
  , Jerry Birn
  Jerry Birn
  Jerry Birn was an American television soap opera writer. He was married to actress Patty Weaver from 1994 until his death aged 86; his daughter is Laura Bryan Birn....
  
  , Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald was an American TV writer scripting the daytime television serial, The Young and the Restless.-Life and career:...
  
  , Enid Powell, Rex M. Best
  Rex M. Best
  Rex M. Best is an award winning American soap opera writer. He was a staff script writer on "The Young and the Restless" for fifteen years . He currently writes scripts for Y&R's sister soap, "The Bold and the Beautiful." He has won four Emmys and a Writers Guild Award. He currently lives in...
  
  

1989, 16th Daytime Emmy Awards

16th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 16th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, June 29, 1989 on NBC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year . The awards aired from 3-5 pm...

• Another World
  Another World (TV series)
  Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
  
  : Donna Swajeski
  Donna Swajeski
  Donna Swajeski is an American television soap opera screenwriter with experience at all three major American networks. She has been a head writer, co-head writer and screenwriter on award winning daytime drama for NBC Daytime, ABC Daytime and CBS Daytime....
  
  , Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either co-head writer, associate head writer, or a breakdown writer on the shows he's worked on.-Positions held:Another World...
  
  ; David Colson
  David Colson
  David Colson is an American television writer, actor, and director.-Credits:*Days of our Lives *One Life to Live *Another World...
  
  ; Roger Newman
  Roger Newman
  Roger Newman was a British born-American soap opera actor and writer. He was born in London, England and died in New York City, New York.Newman began his career as a child in radio...
  
  ; Fran Myers
  Fran Myers
  Frances Myers is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 25 years. She also had a contract role on CBS soap opera Guiding Light as Peggy Scott Fletcher from 1965-1980. She is the widow of actor and writer Roger Newman...
  
  ; Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton is an American daytime serial writer and an alumnus of Northwestern University. Her husband is acclaimed daytime serial writer Richard Culliton...
  
  
• Santa Barbara
  Santa Barbara (TV series)
  Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolved around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California...
  
  : Charles Pratt Jr. , Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey was an award-winning American writer known particularly for her work as a screenwriter and opera librettist....
  
  ; Robert Guza Jr.; Courtney Sherman; Lynda Myles
  Lynda Myles
  Lynda Myles is a British writer and producer. She served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival , director and curator of film at the Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Senior Vice–President at Columbia Pictures, Commissioning Editor for Drama at the BBC for...
  
  ; Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey is an award-winning American television writer who graduated from Yale University.-Career:Among his accomplishments, Mulcahey wrote The Bold and the Beautifuls 5,000th episode. In a recent interview, he acknowledged his close friendships with CBS Daytime's Senior Vice President...
  
  ; Gary Tomlin
  Gary Tomlin
  -Career:Tomlin's career on daytime serials began in 1973 when he was cast on NBC's Search for Tomorrow as Bruce Carson. He also made a guest appearance on "The Nightwalker" episode of the Waltons . He later appeared as Morgan Simpson on the NBC soap opera Another World in 1979...
  
  ; Josh Griffith
  Josh Griffith
  -Career:During the WGA strike, he took over as Head Writer of CBS Daytimes The Young and the Restless. To do this, he accepted Financial core status with the WGA. Maria Arena Bell, a former writer at The Bold and the Beautiful and daughter-in-law of Y&R creator William J...
  
  ; Jane Atkins
  Jane Atkins
  Jane Atkins is an American television soap opera writer and actress. She is a native of Calhoun County, Florida. As an actress, she has performed with the American Conservatory Theatre, the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville and the London Young Vic. Atkins is a member of the Writers Guild of America...
  
  ; Don Harary
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland was an American actor and writer of soap operas.-Career:He began his soap opera career as an actor, appearing on the Irna Phillips series The Brighter Day and As the World Turns. He also did odd jobs on the side as a director for small theatre groups...
  
  , Garin Wolf
  Garin Wolf
  -WGA Strike:During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Wolf chose Financial Core Status with the Writers Guild of America, stepping in for robert Guza Jr...
  
  ; John Kuntz
  John Kuntz
  John Kuntz is an American television writer and actor. He has written for Guiding Light and As the World Turns . He has been nominated for six Daytime Emmys and two WGA Awards. Kuntz has received an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award.-Sources:** * *********...
  
  ; Stephanie Braxton
  Stephanie Braxton
  Stephanie Braxton is an American television writer, playwright and actress. She married Dan Hamilton in 1970, but they are currently divorced...
  
  ; Patti DiZenzo; Caroline Franz
  Caroline Franz
  -Career:After graduating with a Masters' degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children'...
  
  ; Nancy Ford
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Pamela K. Long, Trent Jones
  Trent Jones
  Trent Jones is an American soap opera writer, singer, and actor. His wife is Francesca Jones, a freelance artist.He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs...
  
  ; Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee is an American soap opera writer. She was Head Writer of Guiding Light from 1990 to 1994. Her time at the helm of GL is often considered a golden period for the show....
  
  ; Nancy Williams Watt
  Nancy Williams Watt
  -Positions Held:All My Children*Secretary to Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Jack Wood, Lorraine Broderick, Caroline Franz et al Days of our Lives*Script Writer: September 16, 2011 - presentSearch for Tomorrow...
  
  ; Stephen Demorest
  Stephen Demorest
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008Another World*Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999As the World Turns*Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton is an American television writer known for his work on soap operas. He has won four Writers Guild of America Awards, including one as a Head Writer, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University...
  
  ; Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich is an American television soap opera script writer. He has been writing on daytime for over 23 years. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Positions held:All My Children...
  
  ; Melissa Salmons
  Melissa Salmons
  -Positions held:*One Life to Live *The Young and the Restless * Liquid Television * Another World * Guiding Light * As the World Turns...
  
  ; N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 24 years.-Positions held:All My Children * Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1996, 1998–2001...
  
  

1988, 15th Daytime Emmy Awards

15th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 15th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Wednesday, June 19, 1988 tocommemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year and aired on CBS...

• (Note: The Writers Guild of America
  Writers Guild of America
  The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....
  
   strike occurred when the awards were held)
• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  , Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  , Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn was an American actress who appeared as Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Abigail Collins, and Minerva Trask on Dark Shadows...
  
  ; Susan Kirshenbaum
  Susan Kirshenbaum
  -Positions held:* Writer on All My Children; , As the World Turns , and Days of our Lives -Awards and nominations:...
  
  ; Kathleen Klein
  Kathleen Klein
  -Staff writer:*All My Children *Another World *Guiding Light -Awards and nominations:*Writers Guild of America Award...
  
  ; Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis
  Karen Lewis is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:All My Children*Screenwriter: 1985 - 1997, October 2001 - October 17, 2007*Script Editor: 1997 - 1999As the World Turns* Script Editor: 1999 - 2000...
  
  ; Victor Miller
  Victor Miller (writer)
  Victor Miller or Victor B. Miller is an American writer for film and television. Perhaps his best known and most acknowledged work is his script for the first Friday the 13th film, the popularity of which spawned a long series of sequels, none of which has his involvement, though he remains...
  
  ; Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish is an American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.-Early career:...
  
  ; Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co- Head Writer: Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co-...
  
  ; Peggy Sloane
  Peggy Sloane
  Peggy Sloane was an American television soap opera script writer. She wrote on daytime for over 23 years, and her final year of active daytime work was back in 1999...
  
  ; Gillian Spencer
  Gillian Spencer
  Gillian Spencer is an American soap opera actress and writer.She has had roles on soaps such as The Edge of Night, The Secret Storm, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and on One Life to Live as the original Victoria Lord/Niki Smith 1968-1970.Spencer appeared in the 1968 feature comedy What's So...
  
  ; Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace is an American television writer. She was married to Art Wallace.-Awards and nominations:Wallace has been nominated for five Daytime Emmy awards for her work on All My Children. She was nominated from 1982 to 1988, and won twice in 1985 and 1988. Her first nomination was shared...
  
  ; Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  
• The Judge
  The Judge (TV series)
  The Judge was a syndicated television drama that ran from 1986 to 1992. The series chronicled the family court cases heard by Judge Robert J. Franklin, played by Bob Shield, who died in late 1996....
  
  : Ann Aikman, Greg Ross
  Greg Ross
  Greg Ross is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a right back for Forfar Athletic.-Dunfermline:...
  
  ; Claire Brush Sasano; James Goldin; John Cox; Ron Hoffman; Brady Rubin; Kristine Hansen; Michael Lyons
• Santa Barbara
  Santa Barbara (TV series)
  Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolved around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California...
  
  : Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey was an award-winning American writer known particularly for her work as a screenwriter and opera librettist....
  
  , Charles Pratt Jr.; Gary Tomlin
  Gary Tomlin
  -Career:Tomlin's career on daytime serials began in 1973 when he was cast on NBC's Search for Tomorrow as Bruce Carson. He also made a guest appearance on "The Nightwalker" episode of the Waltons . He later appeared as Morgan Simpson on the NBC soap opera Another World in 1979...
  
  ; Courtney Sherman; Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey is an award-winning American television writer who graduated from Yale University.-Career:Among his accomplishments, Mulcahey wrote The Bold and the Beautifuls 5,000th episode. In a recent interview, he acknowledged his close friendships with CBS Daytime's Senior Vice President...
  
  ; Frank Salisbury
• Superior Court
  Superior Court (TV series)
  Superior Court is a television courtroom drama airing in syndication from 1986 to 1989, and featuring fictionalized re-enactments of actual court cases.Raymond St...
  
  : John William Corrington
  John William Corrington
  John William Corrington was an American movie and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer. He received a B.A. degree from Centenary College, in 1956 and his M.A. from Rice University in 1960, the year he took on his first teaching position in the English Department at Louisiana State University...
  
  , Joyce Corrington http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181020/; Marvin Part; Ronald Part; Harry Boehm; Marcy Shaffer

1987, 14th Daytime Emmy Awards

14th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 14th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1987 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year .Winners in each category are in bold.-Outstanding Daytime Drama Series:*All My Children*As the World Turns...

• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  : Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist.- Background :This Emmy Award winning writer got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s when General Hospital's Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, quit the show with the entire writing team...
  
  , Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson is an American television writer and producer who is the author of the new fiction novel series, Salem's Secrets, Scandals and Lies, based on the television series Days of our Lives and being released in conjunction with their 45th Anniversary. She previously worked primarily on...
  
  , Thom Racina
  Thom Racina
  -Personal:He hails from Kenosha, Wisconsin, went to school in Albuquerque and Chicago, where he got a MFA in Theatre Arts and Directing.He is close friends with Sally Sussman Morina.-Positions held:Another World*Breakdown Writer: 1988*Script Writer: 1987...
  
  , Anne Schoettle
  Anne Schoettle
  Anne Schoettle is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:The Bold and the Beautiful* Script Writer: 2002 - 2003 Days of our Lives* Production Assistant: 1982...
  
  ; Dena Breshears
  Dena Higley
  Dena Higley is an American television soap opera writer who lives in Los Angeles, California. She was head writer of Days of our Lives...
  
  ; Richard J. Allen
  Richard J. Allen
  Richard J. Allen is an American television soap opera writer. He is the chairman and professor of the film department at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.-Positions held:Another World...
  
  ; M.M. Shelly Moore
  Shelly Moore
  Shelly Moore is a beauty queen from Knoxville, Tennessee who won the Miss Teen USA 1997 title.In 1996, Moore won the Miss Northern Tennessee local title before competing for and winning the Miss Tennessee Teen USA 1997 contest. She went on to represent Tennessee in the Miss Teen USA contest held...
  
  ; Penina Spiegel
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  , Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
  , John F. Smith
  John F. Smith
  John F. Smith is an American soap opera writer and producer. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working....
  
  , Sally Sussman Morina
  Sally Sussman Morina
  -Personal Life:She is married to Anthony Morina, a CBS Daytime director and producer. She was in the running to become the Head Writer of Loving in 1991.-Positions held:Freshman Dorm*WriterAnother World*Script Writer: 1996Days of our Lives...
  
  ; Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald was an American TV writer scripting the daytime television serial, The Young and the Restless.-Life and career:...
  
  ; Enid Powell
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Peggy O'Shea, S. Michael Schnessel, Craig Carlson
  Craig Carlson
  -Positions held:All My Children*Breakdown Writer Another World*Co-Head Writer *Breakdown Writer Capitol...
  
  , Lanie Bertram, Ethel M. Brez, Mel Brez
  Mel Brez
  -Positions held:The Doctors* Head Writer: 1978 Another World* Script Writer: 1974, 1995As the World Turns* Co-Head Writer: 1997* Associate Head Writer: 1997, 1998Days of our Lives* Associate Head Writer: 1993 - 1994...
  
  , Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd 'Lucky' Gold is an American screen writer and playwright.Gold’s plays have been produced at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the McCarter Theater and others. He wrote numerous film scripts for Miramax and was script doctor on Marvin's Room and Shakespeare in Love...
  
  

1986, 13th Daytime Emmy Awards

13th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 13th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on July 17, 1986 on NBC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year .Winners in each category are in bold.-Outstanding Daytime Drama Series:*All My Children...

• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  : Norma Monty, Pat Falken Smith
  Pat Falken Smith
  Patricia Falken Smith was a television writer, most famous for her stints as head writer of several soap operas, including General Hospital and Days of our Lives.-Biography:...
  
  , A.J. Russell; James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly
  James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.Reilly died suddenly in October...
  
  ; Patrick Smith; Robert Guza Jr.; Doris Silverton; Robert Soderberg; Maralyn Thoma
  Maralyn Thoma
  Maralyn Thoma is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:Days of our Lives*Breakdown Writer: 1983 - 1985 *Script Writer: 1993 - 1999General Hospital...
  
  
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland was an American actor and writer of soap operas.-Career:He began his soap opera career as an actor, appearing on the Irna Phillips series The Brighter Day and As the World Turns. He also did odd jobs on the side as a director for small theatre groups...
  
  , Susan Bedsow Horgan; Jeanne Glynn
  Jeanne Glynn
  Jeanne Glynn was an Emmy-nominated writer. Jeanne Glynn died of cancer at age 75. Glynn was an actress who turned to writing. Her writing earned her five Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Glynn's nominations came for her work on General Hospital, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, One Life to Live...
  
  ; Garin Wolf
  Garin Wolf
  -WGA Strike:During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Wolf chose Financial Core Status with the Writers Guild of America, stepping in for robert Guza Jr...
  
  ; Patti Dizenzo; M.B. Hatch; Caroline Franz
  Caroline Franz
  -Career:After graduating with a Masters' degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children'...
  
  ; Chris Auer; Meredith Post
  Meredith Post
  Meredith Post is an American television writer. When Douglas Marland died in 1993, she was in the running to become Head Writer of ATWT. That title went to Juliet Law Packer and Richard Backus.-Positions held:As the World Turns*Writer...
  
  ; Jane Willis
  Jane Willis
  Jane Willis is a partner at Ropes & Gray. While studying at Harvard, she had a reputation as a mathematical wiz, and was recruited into the MIT Blackjack Team. The book Bringing Down the House and film 21 are both based on the team's exploits. Willis is a character in both the book and film, where...
  
  ; Steve Wasserman; Emily Squires
  Emily Squires
  Emily Squires is an American television producer and director. Squires has been involved with an interfaith cable TV series and documentaries on the Dalai Lama, Frederick Franckand, and Hiroshima...
  
  ; Courtney Sherman; Charles Dizenzo; Jessica Klein
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Pamela K. Long, Addie Walsh
  Addie Walsh
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 2000 - April 2002; July 2003 - January 14, 2008 ; March 19, 2008 – PresentAs the World Turns*Co-Head Writer: 1997*Associate Head Writer: 1995 - 1999...
  
  , Jeff Ryder; John Kuntz
  John Kuntz
  John Kuntz is an American television writer and actor. He has written for Guiding Light and As the World Turns . He has been nominated for six Daytime Emmys and two WGA Awards. Kuntz has received an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award.-Sources:** * *********...
  
  ; Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either co-head writer, associate head writer, or a breakdown writer on the shows he's worked on.-Positions held:Another World...
  
  ; Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish is an American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.-Early career:...
  
  ; Stephen Demorest
  Stephen Demorest
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008Another World*Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999As the World Turns*Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; Victor Gialanella
  Victor Gialanella
  Victor Gialanella is an American television soap opera writer. Besides his work in daytime, he wrote the Broadway play Frankenstein in 1981, and served as a story editor for Wavelength in 1997.-Positions held:...
  
  ; Mary Pat Gleason
  Mary Pat Gleason
  Mary Pat Gleason is an American film and television actress. From 1983-85 she appeared on The Guiding Light as Jane Hogan.Since the early 1980s she has appeared on such television series as Full House, Murphy Brown, Empty Nest, L.A...
  
  ; Trent Jones
  Trent Jones
  Trent Jones is an American soap opera writer, singer, and actor. His wife is Francesca Jones, a freelance artist.He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs...
  
  ; Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich is an American television soap opera script writer. He has been writing on daytime for over 23 years. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Positions held:All My Children...
  
  ; N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 24 years.-Positions held:All My Children * Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1996, 1998–2001...
  
  ; Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee
  Nancy Curlee is an American soap opera writer. She was Head Writer of Guiding Light from 1990 to 1994. Her time at the helm of GL is often considered a golden period for the show....
  
  
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  , Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
  , John F. Smith
  John F. Smith
  John F. Smith is an American soap opera writer and producer. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working....
  
  , Sally Sussman Morina
  Sally Sussman Morina
  -Personal Life:She is married to Anthony Morina, a CBS Daytime director and producer. She was in the running to become the Head Writer of Loving in 1991.-Positions held:Freshman Dorm*WriterAnother World*Script Writer: 1996Days of our Lives...
  
  ; Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald
  Eric Freiwald was an American TV writer scripting the daytime television serial, The Young and the Restless.-Life and career:...
  
  ; Randy Holland
  Randy Holland
  Randy Holland is a Canadian poker player.Holland has won two World Series of Poker titles: razz in 1996 and seven card stud high low in 2000. In addition he was won other events, including at the Bicycle Casino, Commerce Casino and Foxwoods casino....
  
  ; Meg Bennett
  Meg Bennett
  Meg Bennett is an American television soap opera writer and occasional actress. She is married to General Hospital Head Writer Robert Guza, Jr.-Early life:...
  
  ; Enid Powell

1985, 12th Daytime Emmy Awards

12th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 12th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Wednesday, July 31, 1985 on CBS to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year . Two new categories were added: Outstanding Young Man in a Daytime Drama Series and Outstanding Ingenue in a Daytime Drama Series...

• Another World
  Another World (TV series)
  Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
  
  : Gary Tomlin
  Gary Tomlin
  -Career:Tomlin's career on daytime serials began in 1973 when he was cast on NBC's Search for Tomorrow as Bruce Carson. He also made a guest appearance on "The Nightwalker" episode of the Waltons . He later appeared as Morgan Simpson on the NBC soap opera Another World in 1979...
  
  , Samuel D. Ratcliffe
  Samuel D. Ratcliffe
  Samuel D. Ratcliffe was an Emmy-winning screenwriter for daytime television.He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Birmingham Southern College, moving to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as an actor. From 1968 until the mid-seventies, he appeared in commercials, films and theatre...
  
  , Judith Donato; David Cherrill
  David Cherrill
  David Cherrill is an American television writer and director.-Credits:*Days of our Lives *One Life to Live *Another World...
  
  ; Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton
  Richard Culliton is an American television writer known for his work on soap operas. He has won four Writers Guild of America Awards, including one as a Head Writer, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University...
  
  ; Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker is an American television writer.Pinsker co-wrote the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary, based in the AIDS storyline between characters Stone Cates and Robin Scorpio....
  
  ; Fran Myers
  Fran Myers
  Frances Myers is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 25 years. She also had a contract role on CBS soap opera Guiding Light as Peggy Scott Fletcher from 1965-1980. She is the widow of actor and writer Roger Newman...
  
  ; Roger Newman
  Roger Newman
  Roger Newman was a British born-American soap opera actor and writer. He was born in London, England and died in New York City, New York.Newman began his career as a child in radio...
  
  ; Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton is an American daytime serial writer and an alumnus of Northwestern University. Her husband is acclaimed daytime serial writer Richard Culliton...
  
  ; David Colson
  David Colson
  David Colson is an American television writer, actor, and director.-Credits:*Days of our Lives *One Life to Live *Another World...
  
  ; Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd Gold
  Lloyd 'Lucky' Gold is an American screen writer and playwright.Gold’s plays have been produced at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the McCarter Theater and others. He wrote numerous film scripts for Miramax and was script doctor on Marvin's Room and Shakespeare in Love...
  
  ; Cynthia Saltzman
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  : Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson is an American television writer and producer who is the author of the new fiction novel series, Salem's Secrets, Scandals and Lies, based on the television series Days of our Lives and being released in conjunction with their 45th Anniversary. She previously worked primarily on...
  
  , Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist.- Background :This Emmy Award winning writer got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s when General Hospital's Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, quit the show with the entire writing team...
  
  , Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest is an American daytime serial writer.She began her career as an actress both onstage and on television. Her acting credits include a contract role as the first Abby Cameron on The Edge of Night from 1965-1966....
  
  , Maralyn Thoma
  Maralyn Thoma
  Maralyn Thoma is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:Days of our Lives*Breakdown Writer: 1983 - 1985 *Script Writer: 1993 - 1999General Hospital...
  
  ; Dana Soloff; Anne Schoettle
  Anne Schoettle
  Anne Schoettle is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:The Bold and the Beautiful* Script Writer: 2002 - 2003 Days of our Lives* Production Assistant: 1982...
  
  ; Michael Robert David; Leah Markus; Thom Racina
  Thom Racina
  -Personal:He hails from Kenosha, Wisconsin, went to school in Albuquerque and Chicago, where he got a MFA in Theatre Arts and Directing.He is close friends with Sally Sussman Morina.-Positions held:Another World*Breakdown Writer: 1988*Script Writer: 1987...
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Pam Long
  Pam Long
  Pamela K. Long is an American actress and writer, most known for her stints writing the CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light, from 1983 to 1986 and from 1987 to 1990....
  
  , Addie Walsh
  Addie Walsh
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 2000 - April 2002; July 2003 - January 14, 2008 ; March 19, 2008 – PresentAs the World Turns*Co-Head Writer: 1997*Associate Head Writer: 1995 - 1999...
  
  , Jeff Ryder; John Kuntz
  John Kuntz
  John Kuntz is an American television writer and actor. He has written for Guiding Light and As the World Turns . He has been nominated for six Daytime Emmys and two WGA Awards. Kuntz has received an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award.-Sources:** * *********...
  
  ; Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell
  Christopher Whitesell is an American television soap opera writer. He has served as either co-head writer, associate head writer, or a breakdown writer on the shows he's worked on.-Positions held:Another World...
  
  ; Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton
  Carolyn Culliton is an American daytime serial writer and an alumnus of Northwestern University. Her husband is acclaimed daytime serial writer Richard Culliton...
  
  ; Samuel D. Ratcliffe
  Samuel D. Ratcliffe
  Samuel D. Ratcliffe was an Emmy-winning screenwriter for daytime television.He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Birmingham Southern College, moving to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as an actor. From 1968 until the mid-seventies, he appeared in commercials, films and theatre...
  
  ; Robin Amos; Stephanie Braxton
  Stephanie Braxton
  Stephanie Braxton is an American television writer, playwright and actress. She married Dan Hamilton in 1970, but they are currently divorced...
  
  ; Stephen Demorest
  Stephen Demorest
  -Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008Another World*Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999As the World Turns*Associate Head Writer...
  
  ; Trent Jones
  Trent Jones
  Trent Jones is an American soap opera writer, singer, and actor. His wife is Francesca Jones, a freelance artist.He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs...
  
  ; N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence
  N. Gail Lawrence is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 24 years.-Positions held:All My Children * Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1996, 1998–2001...
  
  ; Michelle Poteet Lisanti
  Michelle Poteet Lisanti
  -Positions held:Another World*Screenwriter: 1995 - 1996Days of our Lives*Co-Head Writer: 1980 - 1981*Breakdown Writer: 1987 - 1994, June 11, 2009–presentGuiding Light*Screenwriter: 1984 - 1985One Life to Live...
  
  ; Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish
  Megan McTavish is an American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.-Early career:...
  
  ; Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich
  Pete T. Rich is an American television soap opera script writer. He has been writing on daytime for over 23 years. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.-Positions held:All My Children...
  
  ; Emily Squires
  Emily Squires
  Emily Squires is an American television producer and director. Squires has been involved with an interfaith cable TV series and documentaries on the Dalai Lama, Frederick Franckand, and Hiroshima...
  
  ; Edward Parone
• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  ; Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  ; Victor Miller
  Victor Miller (writer)
  Victor Miller or Victor B. Miller is an American writer for film and television. Perhaps his best known and most acknowledged work is his script for the first Friday the 13th film, the popularity of which spawned a long series of sequels, none of which has his involvement, though he remains...
  
  ; Art Wallace
  Art Wallace
  Art Wallace was an American television writer best known for his work on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. He began work in television in the 1940s, on the anthology series Studio One and Kraft Television Theater. Over the years, Wallace wrote for Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Combat!, Star Trek, and...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  ; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn was an American actress who appeared as Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Abigail Collins, and Minerva Trask on Dark Shadows...
  
  ; Susan Kirshenbaum
  Susan Kirshenbaum
  -Positions held:* Writer on All My Children; , As the World Turns , and Days of our Lives -Awards and nominations:...
  
  ; Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace is an American television writer. She was married to Art Wallace.-Awards and nominations:Wallace has been nominated for five Daytime Emmy awards for her work on All My Children. She was nominated from 1982 to 1988, and won twice in 1985 and 1988. Her first nomination was shared...
  
  ; Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page
  Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co- Head Writer: Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co-...
  
  ; Carlina Della Pietra; Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  

1984, 11th Daytime Emmy Awards

11th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 11th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on June 27, 1984 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year .Winners in each category are in bold.-Outstanding Daytime Drama Series:*All My Children*Days of our Lives...

• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  : Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest is an American daytime serial writer.She began her career as an actress both onstage and on television. Her acting credits include a contract role as the first Abby Cameron on The Edge of Night from 1965-1966....
  
  , Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson is an American television writer and producer who is the author of the new fiction novel series, Salem's Secrets, Scandals and Lies, based on the television series Days of our Lives and being released in conjunction with their 45th Anniversary. She previously worked primarily on...
  
  , Maralyn Thoma
  Maralyn Thoma
  Maralyn Thoma is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:Days of our Lives*Breakdown Writer: 1983 - 1985 *Script Writer: 1993 - 1999General Hospital...
  
  ; Michael Robert David; Susan Goldberg; Bob Hansen
  Bob Hansen
  Robert Louis Hansen II is an American former professional basketball player...
  
  ; Leah Markus; Dana Soloff
• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  , Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  ; Dani Morris; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  ; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn was an American actress who appeared as Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Abigail Collins, and Minerva Trask on Dark Shadows...
  
  ; Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace is an American television writer. She was married to Art Wallace.-Awards and nominations:Wallace has been nominated for five Daytime Emmy awards for her work on All My Children. She was nominated from 1982 to 1988, and won twice in 1985 and 1988. Her first nomination was shared...
  
  ; Roni Dengel; Susan Kirshenbaum
  Susan Kirshenbaum
  -Positions held:* Writer on All My Children; , As the World Turns , and Days of our Lives -Awards and nominations:...
  
  ; Carlina Della Pietra
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  : Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey was an award-winning American writer known particularly for her work as a screenwriter and opera librettist....
  
  , Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist.- Background :This Emmy Award winning writer got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s when General Hospital's Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, quit the show with the entire writing team...
  
  , A.J. Russell; Norma Monty; Thom Racina
  Thom Racina
  -Personal:He hails from Kenosha, Wisconsin, went to school in Albuquerque and Chicago, where he got a MFA in Theatre Arts and Directing.He is close friends with Sally Sussman Morina.-Positions held:Another World*Breakdown Writer: 1988*Script Writer: 1987...
  
  ; Doris Silverton; Robert Guza Jr.; Charles Pratt Jr.; Peggi Schibi
  Peggy Schibi
  Peggy Schibi is an American television soap opera script writer. She has been writing on daytime for over 24 years.-Positions held:Another World* Script Writer: 1987 - 1988Days of our Lives...
  
  ; Robert J. Shaw
  Robert J. Shaw
  Robert J. Shaw was an American television writer with 39 credits and teacher of screenwriting at UCLA.-Career:...
  
  
• Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...
  
  : Claire Labine
  Claire Labine
  -Early career:Although she originally aspired to be an actress, Labine eventually became a critically acclaimed writer. She attended the University of Kentucky where her major was journalism, but later she switched to playwriting major at Columbia University’s School of Dramatic Arts...
  
  , Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer was an American television writer and producer. His father was the late screen writer Edwin Justus Mayer, and his daughter is director Daisy von Scherler Mayer.-Positions held:...
  
  , Mary Munisteri
  Mary Ryan Munisteri
  Mary Ryan Munisteri is an American television soap opera writer. She was head writer of Ryan's Hope , Guiding Light , and Loving...
  
  ; Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker is an American television writer.Pinsker co-wrote the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary, based in the AIDS storyline between characters Stone Cates and Robin Scorpio....
  
  ; Nancy Ford; B.K. Perlman

1983, 10th Daytime Emmy Awards

10th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 10th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on June 6, 1983 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year .Winners in each category are in bold.-Outstanding Daytime Drama Series:*All My Children*Days of our Lives...

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  , Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  ; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn was an American actress who appeared as Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Abigail Collins, and Minerva Trask on Dark Shadows...
  
  ; Caroline Franz
  Caroline Franz
  -Career:After graduating with a Masters' degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children'...
  
  ; Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace is an American television writer. She was married to Art Wallace.-Awards and nominations:Wallace has been nominated for five Daytime Emmy awards for her work on All My Children. She was nominated from 1982 to 1988, and won twice in 1985 and 1988. Her first nomination was shared...
  
  ; John Saffron
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  : Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey
  Anne Howard Bailey was an award-winning American writer known particularly for her work as a screenwriter and opera librettist....
  
  , Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman
  Leah Laiman is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist.- Background :This Emmy Award winning writer got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s when General Hospital's Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, quit the show with the entire writing team...
  
  , Thom Racina
  Thom Racina
  -Personal:He hails from Kenosha, Wisconsin, went to school in Albuquerque and Chicago, where he got a MFA in Theatre Arts and Directing.He is close friends with Sally Sussman Morina.-Positions held:Another World*Breakdown Writer: 1988*Script Writer: 1987...
  
  , A.J. Russell; Jack Turley; Jeannie Glynn; Robert Guza Jr.; Charles Pratt Jr.; Robert J. Shaw
  Robert J. Shaw
  Robert J. Shaw was an American television writer with 39 credits and teacher of screenwriting at UCLA.-Career:...
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Sam Hall
  Sam Hall (writer)
  Gordon Russell and Sam Hall were a pair of writers known for their work in daytime soap operas.-Dark Shadows:They are best known for their works on Dark Shadows and One Life to Live...
  
  , Peggy O'Shea, S. Michael Schnessel; Victor Miller
  Victor Miller (writer)
  Victor Miller or Victor B. Miller is an American writer for film and television. Perhaps his best known and most acknowledged work is his script for the first Friday the 13th film, the popularity of which spawned a long series of sequels, none of which has his involvement, though he remains...
  
  ; Don Wallace
  Don Wallace
  Donald Allen Wallace is a former Major League Baseball player. Wallace played 23 games with the California Angels in the 1967 season. He had six at-bats, without a hit. He attended Oklahoma State University....
  
  ; Lanie Bertram; Fred Corke; Craig Carlson
  Craig Carlson
  -Positions held:All My Children*Breakdown Writer Another World*Co-Head Writer *Breakdown Writer Capitol...
  
  
• Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...
  
  : Claire Labine
  Claire Labine
  -Early career:Although she originally aspired to be an actress, Labine eventually became a critically acclaimed writer. She attended the University of Kentucky where her major was journalism, but later she switched to playwriting major at Columbia University’s School of Dramatic Arts...
  
  , Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer was an American television writer and producer. His father was the late screen writer Edwin Justus Mayer, and his daughter is director Daisy von Scherler Mayer.-Positions held:...
  
  , Mary Munisteri; Eugene Price; Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker is an American television writer.Pinsker co-wrote the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary, based in the AIDS storyline between characters Stone Cates and Robin Scorpio....
  
  ; Nancy Ford; B.K. Perlman; Rory Metcalf; Trent Jones
  Trent Jones
  Trent Jones is an American soap opera writer, singer, and actor. His wife is Francesca Jones, a freelance artist.He began playing rock star Ken George Jones on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. He not only acted in the role, but sang and even composed some of his character's songs...
  
  

1982, 9th Daytime Emmy Awards

9th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 9th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on June 8, 1982 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year .Winners in each category are in bold.-Outstanding Daytime Drama Series:*All My Children*General Hospital...

• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey
  Patrick Mulcahey is an award-winning American television writer who graduated from Yale University.-Career:Among his accomplishments, Mulcahey wrote The Bold and the Beautifuls 5,000th episode. In a recent interview, he acknowledged his close friendships with CBS Daytime's Senior Vice President...
  
  ; Gene Palumbo
  Gene Palumbo
  Gene Palumbo was an American television producer and writer.-Career:Palumbo served as the Head Writer of the CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light with L...
  
  ; Frank Salisbury
• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  ; Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  ; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn was an American actress who appeared as Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Abigail Collins, and Minerva Trask on Dark Shadows...
  
  ; Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  ; Cynthia Benjamin; John Saffron; Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace
  Elizabeth Wallace is an American television writer. She was married to Art Wallace.-Awards and nominations:Wallace has been nominated for five Daytime Emmy awards for her work on All My Children. She was nominated from 1982 to 1988, and won twice in 1985 and 1988. Her first nomination was shared...
  
  
• The Edge of Night
  The Edge of Night
  The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984...
  
  : Henry Slesar
  Henry Slesar
  Henry Slesar was an American author, playwright, and copywriter. He was also known as O.H. Leslie and Jay Street.-Early life:...
  
  ; Lois Kibbee
  Lois Kibbee
  Lois Kibbee was an American actress.Kibbee was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. The daughter of actor Milton Kibbee and the niece of actor Guy Kibbee, Lois is best remembered for portrayal of Geraldine Weldon Whitney Saxon on the CBS/ABC daytime soap opera The Edge of Night, where she appeared from...
  
  
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Sam Hall
  Sam Hall (writer)
  Gordon Russell and Sam Hall were a pair of writers known for their work in daytime soap operas.-Dark Shadows:They are best known for their works on Dark Shadows and One Life to Live...
  
  , Peggy O'Shea; Don Wallace
  Don Wallace
  Donald Allen Wallace is a former Major League Baseball player. Wallace played 23 games with the California Angels in the 1967 season. He had six at-bats, without a hit. He attended Oklahoma State University....
  
  , Lanie Bertram; Fred Corke; S. Michael Schnessel, Nancy Franklin

1981, 8th Daytime Emmy Awards

8th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 8th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1981 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year . The eighth awards did not include the cameo category from the previous year, so only five awards were given, like in previous years....

• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland was an American actor and writer of soap operas.-Career:He began his soap opera career as an actor, appearing on the Irna Phillips series The Brighter Day and As the World Turns. He also did odd jobs on the side as a director for small theatre groups...
  
  ; Robert Dwyer; Nancy Franklin; Harding Lemay
  Harding Lemay
  Harding Lemay is an American screenwriter and playwright. Born near the Mohawk Indian reservation, where his mother grew up, he ran away to New York City at age 17, where he has lived ever since.-Career:...
  
  
• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  ; Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  ; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn was an American actress who appeared as Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Abigail Collins, and Minerva Trask on Dark Shadows...
  
  ; Caroline Franz
  Caroline Franz
  -Career:After graduating with a Masters' degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children'...
  
  ; Cathy Chicos; Cynthia Benjamin
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  : Patricia Falken Smith; Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest
  Margaret DePriest is an American daytime serial writer.She began her career as an actress both onstage and on television. Her acting credits include a contract role as the first Abby Cameron on The Edge of Night from 1965-1966....
  
  ; Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson is an American television writer and producer who is the author of the new fiction novel series, Salem's Secrets, Scandals and Lies, based on the television series Days of our Lives and being released in conjunction with their 45th Anniversary. She previously worked primarily on...
  
  ; Frank Salisbury; Margaret Stewart http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2657876/awards
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Sam Hall
  Sam Hall (writer)
  Gordon Russell and Sam Hall were a pair of writers known for their work in daytime soap operas.-Dark Shadows:They are best known for their works on Dark Shadows and One Life to Live...
  
  ; Peggy O'Shea; Don Wallace
  Don Wallace
  Donald Allen Wallace is a former Major League Baseball player. Wallace played 23 games with the California Angels in the 1967 season. He had six at-bats, without a hit. He attended Oklahoma State University....
  
  ; Lanie Bertram; Gordon Russell
  Gordon Russell
  Gordon Russell and Sam Hall were a pair of writers well known for their work in daytime soap operas.-Dark Shadows:They are best known for their works on Dark Shadows and One Life to Live...
  
  ; Fred Corke

1980, 7th Daytime Emmy Awards

7th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 7th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1980 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year . The seventh awards included a cameo appearance category, giving an award to a memorable soap cameo...

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  , Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  ; Caroline Franz
  Caroline Franz
  -Career:After graduating with a Masters' degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children'...
  
  ; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Cathy Chicos; Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn
  Clarice Blackburn was an American actress who appeared as Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Abigail Collins, and Minerva Trask on Dark Shadows...
  
  ; Anita Jaffe; Kenneth Harvey
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
  : Gordon Russell
  Gordon Russell
  Gordon Russell and Sam Hall were a pair of writers well known for their work in daytime soap operas.-Dark Shadows:They are best known for their works on Dark Shadows and One Life to Live...
  
  , Sam Hall
  Sam Hall (writer)
  Gordon Russell and Sam Hall were a pair of writers known for their work in daytime soap operas.-Dark Shadows:They are best known for their works on Dark Shadows and One Life to Live...
  
  , Peggy O'Shea; Don Wallace
  Don Wallace
  Donald Allen Wallace is a former Major League Baseball player. Wallace played 23 games with the California Angels in the 1967 season. He had six at-bats, without a hit. He attended Oklahoma State University....
  
  ; Lanie Bertram; Cynthia Benjamin; Marisa Gioffre
• Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...
  
  : Claire Labine
  Claire Labine
  -Early career:Although she originally aspired to be an actress, Labine eventually became a critically acclaimed writer. She attended the University of Kentucky where her major was journalism, but later she switched to playwriting major at Columbia University’s School of Dramatic Arts...
  
  , Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer was an American television writer and producer. His father was the late screen writer Edwin Justus Mayer, and his daughter is director Daisy von Scherler Mayer.-Positions held:...
  
  , Mary Ryan Munisteri
  Mary Ryan Munisteri
  Mary Ryan Munisteri is an American television soap opera writer. She was head writer of Ryan's Hope , Guiding Light , and Loving...
  
  ; Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker is an American television writer.Pinsker co-wrote the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary, based in the AIDS storyline between characters Stone Cates and Robin Scorpio....
  
  ; Jeffrey Lane
  Jeffrey Lane
  Jeffrey Lane is an author, television scriptwriter, film producer and actor. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.-Broadway:Lane wrote the book for the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which ran on Broadway in 2005 and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical...
  
  
• The Edge of Night
  The Edge of Night
  The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984...
  
  : Henry Slesar
  Henry Slesar
  Henry Slesar was an American author, playwright, and copywriter. He was also known as O.H. Leslie and Jay Street.-Early life:...
  
  , Steve Lehrman

1979, 6th Daytime Emmy Awards

6th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 6th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1979 to commemorate excellence in American daytime programming from the previous year . The sixth awards included supporting actor and actress categories, meaning that five awards were given out that year, a first in the awards show's history.Winners in each...

• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  : Ann Marcus
  Ann Marcus
  Ann Marcus ia an American television writer, producer and playwright. She graduated from Western College for Women, worked for the New York Daily News and Life, where she worked with famed photographers such as Alfred Eisenstadt....
  
  , Michael Robert David; Ray Goldstone; Joyce Perry; Elizabeth Harrower
  Elizabeth Harrower (actress)
  Elizabeth Harrower Seabold was an American actress and screenwriter.Betty Louise Foss was born into the world during World War I in Alameda, California and the great flu epidemic. Within six weeks her mother died, her father had a nervous breakdown, and relatives passed her care around...
  
  ; Rocci Chatfield; Laura Olsher
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  , Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
  , Elizabeth Harrower
  Elizabeth Harrower (actress)
  Elizabeth Harrower Seabold was an American actress and screenwriter.Betty Louise Foss was born into the world during World War I in Alameda, California and the great flu epidemic. Within six weeks her mother died, her father had a nervous breakdown, and relatives passed her care around...
  
  
• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  ; Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  ; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Kenneth Harvey; Cathy Chicos; Caroline Franz
  Caroline Franz
  -Career:After graduating with a Masters' degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children'...
  
  ; Doris Frankel; William Delligan
• Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...
  
  : Claire Labine
  Claire Labine
  -Early career:Although she originally aspired to be an actress, Labine eventually became a critically acclaimed writer. She attended the University of Kentucky where her major was journalism, but later she switched to playwriting major at Columbia University’s School of Dramatic Arts...
  
  , Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer was an American television writer and producer. His father was the late screen writer Edwin Justus Mayer, and his daughter is director Daisy von Scherler Mayer.-Positions held:...
  
  , Mary Ryan Munisteri
  Mary Ryan Munisteri
  Mary Ryan Munisteri is an American television soap opera writer. She was head writer of Ryan's Hope , Guiding Light , and Loving...
  
  ; Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker is an American television writer.Pinsker co-wrote the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary, based in the AIDS storyline between characters Stone Cates and Robin Scorpio....
  
  ; Jeffrey Lane
  Jeffrey Lane
  Jeffrey Lane is an author, television scriptwriter, film producer and actor. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.-Broadway:Lane wrote the book for the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which ran on Broadway in 2005 and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical...
  
  

1978, 5th Daytime Emmy Awards

5th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 5th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on June 7, 1978, to commemorate excellence in American daytime programming from the previous year . The awards were hosted by Family Feud host Richard Dawson, who also won an award for best game show host....

• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Jerome Dobson, Bridget Dobson, Nancy Ford http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1299367/awards; Jean Rouverol
  Jean Rouverol
  Jean Rouverol is an American author, actress and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.-Biography:...
  
   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746169/; Robert White http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0925388/; Phyllis White http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0925335/;
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  : Ann Marcus
  Ann Marcus
  Ann Marcus ia an American television writer, producer and playwright. She graduated from Western College for Women, worked for the New York Daily News and Life, where she worked with famed photographers such as Alfred Eisenstadt....
  
  , Ray Goldstone; Joyce Perry http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675145/; Michael Robert David http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2659589/awards; Laura Olsher; Rocci Chatfield; Elizabeth Harrower
  Elizabeth Harrower (actress)
  Elizabeth Harrower Seabold was an American actress and screenwriter.Betty Louise Foss was born into the world during World War I in Alameda, California and the great flu epidemic. Within six weeks her mother died, her father had a nervous breakdown, and relatives passed her care around...
  
  
• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  , Cathy Chicos; Doris Frankel; Kenneth Harvey; Kathryn McCabe; Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  
• Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...
  
  : Claire Labine
  Claire Labine
  -Early career:Although she originally aspired to be an actress, Labine eventually became a critically acclaimed writer. She attended the University of Kentucky where her major was journalism, but later she switched to playwriting major at Columbia University’s School of Dramatic Arts...
  
  , Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer was an American television writer and producer. His father was the late screen writer Edwin Justus Mayer, and his daughter is director Daisy von Scherler Mayer.-Positions held:...
  
  , Mary Munisteri; Allan Leicht http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0500076/; Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker
  Judith Pinsker is an American television writer.Pinsker co-wrote the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary, based in the AIDS storyline between characters Stone Cates and Robin Scorpio....
  
  

1977, 4th Daytime Emmy Awards

4th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 4th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1977 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year . The fourth awards only had three categories, and thus three awards were given.Winners in each category are in bold....

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  ; Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Kathryn McCabe; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939765/
• Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...
  
  : Claire Labine
  Claire Labine
  -Early career:Although she originally aspired to be an actress, Labine eventually became a critically acclaimed writer. She attended the University of Kentucky where her major was journalism, but later she switched to playwriting major at Columbia University’s School of Dramatic Arts...
  
  , Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer
  Paul Avila Mayer was an American television writer and producer. His father was the late screen writer Edwin Justus Mayer, and his daughter is director Daisy von Scherler Mayer.-Positions held:...
  
   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996410/, Mary Munisteri
  Mary Ryan Munisteri
  Mary Ryan Munisteri is an American television soap opera writer. She was head writer of Ryan's Hope , Guiding Light , and Loving...
  
  
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
  
  : Robert Soderberg http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812026/, Edith R. Sommer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813960/, Ralph Ellis http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255034/; Eugenie Hunt; Theodore Apstein http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032541/; Gillian Spencer
  Gillian Spencer
  Gillian Spencer is an American soap opera actress and writer.She has had roles on soaps such as The Edge of Night, The Secret Storm, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and on One Life to Live as the original Victoria Lord/Niki Smith 1968-1970.Spencer appeared in the 1968 feature comedy What's So...
  
  
• Another World
  Another World (TV series)
  Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
  
  : Harding Lemay
  Harding Lemay
  Harding Lemay is an American screenwriter and playwright. Born near the Mohawk Indian reservation, where his mother grew up, he ran away to New York City at age 17, where he has lived ever since.-Career:...
  
  , Tom King
  Tom King (writer)
  Tom King is an American television writer and story board artist best known for his work on the animated children's shows The Ren and Stimpy Show, SpongeBob SquarePants, Camp Lazlo, Chowder and The Fairly OddParents...
  
  ; Peter Swet; Barry Berg; Jan Merlin
  Jan Merlin
  Jan Merlin is an American character actor, screen writer, and author.- Career :Born and raised in New York USA, during the Second World War he enlisted in the US Navy to serve on three successive ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, accumulating ten battle stars before entering Japan's...
  
   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581005/; Arthur Giron; Kathy Callaway
  Kathy Callaway
  Kathy Callaway is an American poet, and writer.-Life:Kathy Jean Callaway wrote for several daytime television dramas including Another World, Secret Storm, The Doctors, Somerset and Guiding Light, with an Emmy nomination for work on Another World.She graduated from University of Montana...
  
  
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  : Pat Falken Smith
  Pat Falken Smith
  Patricia Falken Smith was a television writer, most famous for her stints as head writer of several soap operas, including General Hospital and Days of our Lives.-Biography:...
  
  ; William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  ; Bill Rega; Kay Lenard; Margaret Stewart

1976, 3rd Daytime Emmy Awards

3rd Daytime Emmy Awards

The 3rd Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1976 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year . The third awards only had three categories, and thus three awards were given.Winners in each category are in bold....

• All My Children
  All My Children
  All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...
  
  : Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon
  Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...
  
  , Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam
  Wisner Washam is an American soap opera writer, best known as the Head Writer of All My Children, from 1981 to 1987.-Early Life and Career:A native of North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
  
  ; Kiki McCabe; Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells
  Mary K. Wells was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return to Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday , Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge...
  
  ; Jack Wood
  Jack Wood
  Jack Wood was an American television director and writer. Born in Longview, Texas, he died of heart failure in Long Beach, California, on February 18, 2007.-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children...
  
  
• The Edge of Night
  The Edge of Night
  The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984...
  
  : Henry Slesar
  Henry Slesar
  Henry Slesar was an American author, playwright, and copywriter. He was also known as O.H. Leslie and Jay Street.-Early life:...
  
  
• Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
  
  : Bridget Dobson, Jerome Dobson, Jean Rouverol
  Jean Rouverol
  Jean Rouverol is an American author, actress and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.-Biography:...
  
   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746169/
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  ; Kay Alden
  Kay Alden
  Kay Alden is a five-time Emmy award-winning television writer and the former head writer for the most-watched American soap opera, The Young and the Restless. She is currently the co-head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful....
  
  
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  , Patricia Falken Smith
  Pat Falken Smith
  Patricia Falken Smith was a television writer, most famous for her stints as head writer of several soap operas, including General Hospital and Days of our Lives.-Biography:...
  
  , Bill Rega, Margaret Stewart, Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson
  Sheri Anderson is an American television writer and producer who is the author of the new fiction novel series, Salem's Secrets, Scandals and Lies, based on the television series Days of our Lives and being released in conjunction with their 45th Anniversary. She previously worked primarily on...
  
  , Wanda Coleman
  Wanda Coleman
  Wanda Coleman is an American poet. She is known as "the L.A. Blueswoman," and "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles."-Biography:...
  
  , Kay Lenard http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501694/

1975, 2nd Daytime Emmy Awards

2nd Daytime Emmy Awards

The 2nd Daytime Emmy Awards were held on May 15, 1975 and broadcast on CBS to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year...

• Another World
  Another World (TV series)
  Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...
  
  : Harding Lemay
  Harding Lemay
  Harding Lemay is an American screenwriter and playwright. Born near the Mohawk Indian reservation, where his mother grew up, he ran away to New York City at age 17, where he has lived ever since.-Career:...
  
  , Tom King
  Tom King (writer)
  Tom King is an American television writer and story board artist best known for his work on the animated children's shows The Ren and Stimpy Show, SpongeBob SquarePants, Camp Lazlo, Chowder and The Fairly OddParents...
  
  , Charles Kozloff, Jan Merlin
  Jan Merlin
  Jan Merlin is an American character actor, screen writer, and author.- Career :Born and raised in New York USA, during the Second World War he enlisted in the US Navy to serve on three successive ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, accumulating ten battle stars before entering Japan's...
  
   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581005/, Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland
  Douglas Marland was an American actor and writer of soap operas.-Career:He began his soap opera career as an actor, appearing on the Irna Phillips series The Brighter Day and As the World Turns. He also did odd jobs on the side as a director for small theatre groups...
  
  
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  , Pat Falken Smith
  Pat Falken Smith
  Patricia Falken Smith was a television writer, most famous for her stints as head writer of several soap operas, including General Hospital and Days of our Lives.-Biography:...
  
  , Bill Rega http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716358/awards
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
  
  : William J. Bell
  William J. Bell
  William J. Bell was the creator and executive producer of the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.-Personal life:...
  
  

1974, 1st Daytime Emmy Awards

1st Daytime Emmy Awards

The 1st Daytime Emmy Awards were held on May 28, 1974 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year . It was hosted by Peter Marshall at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.Winners in each category are in bold....

• The Edge of Night
  The Edge of Night
  The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984...
  
  : Henry Slesar
  Henry Slesar
  Henry Slesar was an American author, playwright, and copywriter. He was also known as O.H. Leslie and Jay Street.-Early life:...
  
  
• General Hospital
  General Hospital
  General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
  
  : Frank Hursley
  Frank Hursley
  Frank Hursley is an American soap opera writer.-Career:He was a writer on the Western series Have Gun, Will Travel, but became famous in 1957 when he began writing for CBS Daytime's Search For Tomorrow. He continued to write Search for Tomorrow even after the show that he co-created with his wife,...
  
  , Doris Hursley, Bridget Dobson & Deborah Hardy
• The Doctors: Eileen Pollock
  Eileen Pollock
  Eileen Pollock is a Northern Irish actress.-Career:She is probably best known for playing the part of 'Lilo' Lill in Carla Lane's comedy Bread, she has also appeared in such productions as Play for Tomorrow , After You've Gone , Far and Away , and most recently, Wild About Harry, in 2000.Other...
  
  , Robert Mason Pollock, & James Lipton
  James Lipton
  James Lipton is an American writer, poet, composer, actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He is the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994...
  
  

External links

• Daytime Emmy Awards
• Emmy Awards Online