Positions 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...

• Secretary to Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Jack Wood, Lorraine Broderick, Caroline Franz et al (1979–1981)

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...

• Script Writer: September 16, 2011 - present

Search for Tomorrow

Search for Tomorrow

Search for Tomorrow is an American soap opera which premiered on September 3, 1951 on CBS. The show was moved from CBS to NBC on March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode aired on December 26, 1986, a run of thirty-five years. At the time of its final broadcast it was the...

• Script Writer/Breakdown Writer (1983–1985)

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....

(hired by 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...

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• Script Writer (1999-September 2007)

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...

• Script Writer/Outline Writer (1986–1993)
• Script Editor/Associate Headwriter (1993–1999)

Awards and nominations

She has been nominated for eight Daytime Emmy awards in the category Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team from 1989–2003, and won twice in 1990 and 1993. Both wins were for Guiding Light. Her first nomination was shared with 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....

, 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...

, and 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...

, while her first win was shared with the previous plus Jeff Ryder, Garret 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...

, and Patty Gideon Sloan.

Williams Watt has also been nominated for five Writers Guild of America Awards, in the Daytime Serials category, from 1989–2001, and won once in 1992. Her first nomination was shared with Pamela K. Long, 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...

, 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...

, 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...

, 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....

, 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...

, 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...

, and Nancy Franklin, while her win was shared with the latter, minus Jones, Culliton and Franklin, and including 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...

, Bill Elverman, and 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...

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