Lisa Seidman

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Lisa Seidman
Born (1957-04-27) April 27, 1957 (age 65)
Education Franklin & Marshall College
OccupationTelevision screenwriter
Years active1984–present
Website https://lisaseidman.wordpress.com/

Lisa Seidman (born April 27, 1957, in Massapequa, New York) is an American television writer who has primarily written for soap operas. [1] She is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College. Seidman has written episodes for several prime time television drama series, which include CBS-TV's Dallas , for which she wrote thirteen episodes, Falcon Crest and Knots Landing , for which she wrote 7 each, Murder, She Wrote , Cagney & Lacey , and Scarecrow and Mrs. King .

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She also has been nominated numerous times for awards for her screenwriting work on daytime television, twice winning in both 2012 for her work on the NBC-TV soap series Days of Our Lives and in 2014 for her work on The Young and the Restless .

Selected filmography

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards
Writers Guild of America Award

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References

  1. "Lisa Seidman". IMDB. Retrieved October 30, 2010.