Lloyd "Lucky" Gold (born September 6, 1950) is an American screenwriter 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. He is co-creator of the PBS American Mystery Series, produced by Robert Redford and Rebecca Eaton. Gold has written both series and long form for television including USA Network's Stealing Christmas. He is the recipient of an NEA grant, 4 Emmys and 3 WGA Awards.
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Millee Taggart is an American actress, writer, and producer. 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.
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.
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.
David Kreizman is an American writer known for his work on television soap operas. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia. He was signed as a head writer at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from March 21, 2013, to August 15, 2014. He is the founder of Gen Z Media. His debut book "The Year They Fell" was published in 2019.
Carolyn Culliton is an American daytime radio and television writer. Born in Indiana, she graduated from Northwestern University. Her husband is fellow daytime serial writer Richard Culliton.
Donna Swajeski is an American writer known for her work on television soap operas. She has been a head writer, a co-head writer and a breakdown writer on award-winning daytime dramas for NBC Daytime, ABC Daytime and CBS Daytime. Before beginning her writing career on daytime dramas, she was Director of the East Coast Daytime Programs for NBC.
Michael Conforti is an American television writer on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. 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 Light. Conforti is currently a breakdown writer for the television show The Young and the Restless. Conforti, formerly a member of Writers Guild of America, East, left and maintained financial core status during the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike.
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 has worked. In April 2012, he was named co-head writer of Days of Our Lives with Gary Tomlin, replacing Marlene Clark McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas who had been let go.
Courtney Simon is an American writer and actress. Simon is sometimes credited as Courtney Sherman or Courtney Sherman Simon. Simon is best known for having created the role of Kathy Phillips on the long-running soap opera Search for Tomorrow.
Craig Carlson is an American soap opera writer.
Frederick Johnson is an American writer known for his work on television soap operas. He has won five Emmy Awards and five Writers Guild of America Awards. He is an alumnus of Cornell University.
Elizabeth Snyder was an American television soap opera writer. She turned down the position of co-Head Writer of One Life to Live in November 2012. That position was accepted by Thom Racina. Died November 16, 2021, at age 60.
David A. Levinson is an American television and soap opera writer, originally from Falmouth, Massachusetts. He is a 1997 graduate of Emerson College in Boston.
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.
James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten are American television writers, primarily working on soap operas. The duo worked together for over 20 years, starting on the prime-time serial Dynasty. Together, they created the soap opera The City, a spinoff of Loving. On November 14, 2012, Esensten died at the age of 75.
Janet Iacobuzio is an American television soap opera writer.
Elizabeth Page is an American writer, director and filmmaker. She has written and directed for the stage, film and television.
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.
Melissa Salmons is an American writer known for her work on television soap operas, known for her work on Days of Our Lives.