Peter Brash

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Peter Brash (born July 16, 1954) is an American television soap opera writer, screen writer, and musical theatre librettist. His career in soap opera spanned more than 25 years, and included many of the major network serials.

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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. He began his soap opera writing career as a script writer on the NBC daytime drama "The Doctors" (1982) and then went on to write scripts for "Ryan's Hope" (1983-1985) and others, and served as co-head writer on "Days of Our Lives" (2002-2003). His work has been recognized with an Emmy Award and two Writers Guild Awards.

He co-wrote the screenplay for "We Are the Hartmans" with director Laura Newman. The movie, starring Richard Chamberlain and Ben Curtis, had its world premiere at the 2011 Atlanta Film Festival.

In 2011, he co-created the musical comedy, "The Nutcracker and I", with music by Tchaikovsky, lyrics by Gerard Alessandrini, and book by Brash. The musical had its world premier performance on December 2, 2011 at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, directed by the theatre's artistic director, David Saint. [1]

Positions held

Another World

As the World Turns

Days of Our Lives

Guiding Light

Ryan's Hope

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards

WINS

NOMINATIONS

Writers Guild of America Award

WINS

NOMINATIONS

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References

  1. The Nutcracker and I" Archived 2016-11-04 at the Wayback Machine . George Street Playhouse, accessed August 1, 2011
Preceded by Head Writer of Days of Our Lives (with Paula Cwikly)
March 29, 2002 - March 6, 2003
Succeeded by