Michael S. Stich is an American television soap opera director. On-screen, Stich is credited with his real name on B&B, but as Mike Stich on Y&R. [1]
Directors Guild of America Award
The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It premiered on March 23, 1987, as a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera The Young and the Restless; several characters from each of the two shows have crossed over to the other since the early 1990s. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers upon the Forrester family and their haute couture business.
Susan Flannery is an American actress and director known for her roles in the daytime dramas The Bold and the Beautiful and Days of Our Lives.
Heather Marie Tom is an American actress and television director. She is best known for her acting work on various soap operas, with her best known roles being Victoria Newman on The Young and the Restless, Kelly Cramer on One Life to Live and All My Children and, since 2007, Katie Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful, for which she has earned a record-tying six Daytime Emmy Awards, the most for a soap actress.
Ellen Jayne Wheeler is an American actress, director and producer. She has appeared in several soap operas, including Another World and All My Children. In 1986, she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for her work as twins Marley and Vicky Love Hudson on Another World. In 1988, she won another Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work as Cindy Parker Chandler on All My Children. Wheeler's character was one of the first characters with AIDS on daytime television. Wheeler also made a memorable guest appearance as Phyllis Wicke in the 1991 primetime revival of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.
Mary Martha Byrne is an American actress, singer and television writer. She played the role of Lily Walsh Snyder on the soap opera As the World Turns from 1985 to 1989, then again from 1993 to 2008; as well as, from 2000 to 2003, Lily's twin sister, Rose D'Angelo. Byrne has also appeared in other stage, television and movie roles, including the title role in the 1983 film Anna to the Infinite Power. She is currently executive producer of the digital drama series Anacostia, where she has played the role of Alexis Jordan since 2011. Byrne has won three Daytime Emmy Awards for acting.
Priscilla Kay Alden is an American television writer and the former head writer for the soap opera, The Young and the Restless.
Bradley Phillip Bell is an American television writer and producer. Bell is an eight-time Daytime Emmy Award winner and is executive producer and head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera.
Meg Bennett is an American television soap opera writer and occasional actress. She is married to ex-General Hospital head writer Robert Guza, Jr.
Michele Val Jean is an American television writer on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
Rex M. Best is an American soap opera writer. He was a staff script writer on "The Young and the Restless" for fifteen years (1987-2002). He currently writes scripts for Y&R's sister soap, "The Bold and the Beautiful." He has won eight Emmys for Best Writing and a Writers Guild Award. He currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Prior to his daytime writing career, he taught students with autism in the Greensboro school system.
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.
Gary Tomlin is an American soap opera actor, writer, producer and director.
Christopher Goutman is an American writer, producer, actor and director. He is most notable for his work on daytime soap operas.
Deveney Marking Kelly is an American television soap opera director and former producer. On-screen, Deveney is credited as Deveney Kelly, but she's also known as Deveney Marking.
Michael Minnis is an American television soap opera writer.
Jill Mitwell is an American television soap opera director. Mitwell gave the acceptance speech for One Life to Live winning the Daytime Emmy Award for the directing team in 2008.
Cynthia J. Popp is an American television director and producer on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. She produced music videos for John McCook, Bobbie Eakes and Jeff Trachta and The Wiggles. Beside working on daytime, Popp directed two episodes of Frasier.
Maria Arena Bell is an American novelist, television and freelance writer. She is the former head writer and executive producer of the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood is a Canadian actress, musician and television personality. Since 2008, she has played fashion executive and heiress Steffy Forrester in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, which won her two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 and 2021. She also starred as Olivia Castle in the 2011 horror film Final Destination 5 and hosted the E! series Party On from 2013 to 2014.
The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team is an award presented annually by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS).