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Caroline Franz is an American television writer.
After graduating with a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976, Ms. Franz began her daytime career as a writer for 'All My Children' (1977 - 1983). In 1983, she was named headwriter of "As The World Turns." In 1984, she became headwriter of 'Search for Tomorrow", but then returned as a scriptwriter to "As The World Turns" in 1985, where she remained until 1995. In 1997, Ms. Franz returned to "All My Children" as a scriptwriter, where she remained until 2000 after winning an Emmy award (following 13 nominations) for Outstanding Writing of a Daytime Serial. She worked with two legendary writers, Agnes Nixon and Douglas Marland.
She has received 13 Daytime Emmy and 4 WGA Award nominations. She has won 1 Emmy and 2 WGA Awards. .
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Agnes Nixon was an American television writer and producer, and the creator of the ABC soap operas One Life to Live, All My Children, and Loving.
Susan Seaforth Hayes is an American dramatic actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Julie Williams on the NBC drama Days of Our Lives, and her intermittent portrayal of Joanna Manning on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. She began playing the role of Julie Olsen Williams on Days of Our Lives in 1968, and is the only actor to appear on the show for all seven decades in which it has been on the air. Seaforth Hayes still regularly appears on Days as Julie Olsen Williams.
Maura West DeFreitas is an American actress. She began her career in 1995, when she was cast Carly Tenney on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns; she remained with the soap until its series finale on September 17, 2010. West later went on to portray the role Diane Jenkins on The Young and the Restless from September 2010 to August 2011. In 2013, she was cast in the role of art dealer Ava Jerome on General Hospital. She has been nominated for 12 Daytime Emmy Awards, winning three of them for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Millee Taggart is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Janet Bergman Collins on Search for Tomorrow. She portrayed the character from 1971 to 1982. Her other acting roles on soaps include Gerry McGrath Pollock #3 on The Edge of Night and Millie Parks on One Life to Live.
Claire Vaughn Labine was an American soap opera writer and producer.
Megan McTavish is American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.
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 three Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University. His wife, Carolyn Culliton, is also a veteran writer for soap operas.
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.
Francesca James is an American actress, writer, singer, composer, director and producer. She grew up in Michigan where she began her professional career in the theater at the age of sixteen.
Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer. She got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon. She went on to serve four different stints as its Head Writer, ultimately earning her four Daytime Emmy awards in that capacity. Broderick's work on the show has often been met with critical acclaim, citing her as its finest head writer outside of Nixon. She was the last head writer of All My Children's 40-year broadcast run on ABC, penning the show through its network finale on September 23, 2011.
Daran Little is a BAFTA Award-winning and EMMY nominated British television writer. He is the only writer to pen more than a hundred episodes of both Coronation Street and - EastEnders. He currently lives in LA where he is developing his own dramas and reality shows.
Priscilla Kay Alden is an American television writer and the former head writer for the soap opera, The Young and the Restless.
Gary Tomlin is an American soap opera actor, writer, producer and director.
Ronald David "Ron" Carlivati is an American screenwriter. He is best known for his tenures as head writer on the ABC Daytime soap operas One Life to Live and General Hospital. He is currently serving a position as head writer for the NBC Daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Lisa Connor is an American soap opera writer, producer, and director. She is a writer on the ABC Daytime and The Online Network serial drama All My Children.
Hal Corley is an American playwright and television writer.
Nancy Williams Watt is an American writer known for her work on television soap operas. She was born in Brooklyn, NY on June 9, 1948 to Associated Press editor Edward Williams and newswoman Sheila O'Brien Williams Barnes.
Maria Jacquemetton is an American television writer and producer. She graduated from Lehigh University in 1983. She served as a producer for the first season of Mad Men and co-wrote, with husband Andre Jacquemetton, three episodes of the season. Alongside her colleagues on the writing staff she won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series and was nominated for the award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2008 ceremony for her work on the season. She returned as a producer for the second season and continued to write episodes. She was nominated for the WGA award for Best Dramatic Series a second time at the February 2009 ceremony for her work on the second season. She won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the third season.
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. She has been nominated for seven awards, and has received two including a Daytime Emmy.
Lynda Myles is a television writer, actress, playwright, memoirist, and short fiction writer. She had attended Michigan State University and is known for her Broadway plays such as Two Gentlemen of Verona, Iphigenia in Aulis, No Exit, Rocking Chair, Trojan Women and Neil Simon's Plaza Suite.