James E. Reilly was an American soap opera writer. He was the head writer of NBC's Days of Our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions. Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.
Jill Farren Phelps is an American television producer. She is known for her work with American soap operas, having served as executive producer of Santa Barbara, Another World, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless.
Soap Opera Digest is a weekly magazine covering American daytime soap operas. It features onscreen and offscreen news about the series, interviews with and articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional information. Founded in 1975, the magazine has historically included certain prime time soap operas in its coverage as well.
Kathleen Noone is an American actress. She began her career as a singer in nightclubs and performed in musicals in off-Broadway stage, before making her television debut in the CBS daytime soap opera, As the World Turns (1975–76).
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.
Meg Bennett is an American television soap opera writer and occasional actress. She is married to ex-General Hospital head writer Robert Guza, Jr.
Charles Pratt Jr. is an American television writer, producer and director.
Gary Tomlin is an American soap opera actor, writer, producer and director.
Lisa de Cazotte was an American soap opera producer.
Joe Shelby "Josh" Griffith is an American soap opera writer and producer.
Sally Sussman Morina is a Documentary Filmmaker and an Emmy Award and WGA Award-winning television Writer and Producer. She is based in Santa Monica, California.
Thom Racina is an American television writer and novelist.
Grant A. Johnson is an American television soap opera director.
James Sayegh is an American television soap opera director.
John C. Zak, born in 1954 in Washington D.C., United States, is an American director, producer and film maker as well as a voice over actor. He has worked in network television for over 30 years. After graduating from Canyon High School in Canyon Country California in 1972, Zak studied film and television production at UCLA, graduating Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.
Maralyn Thoma-Dougherty is an American television soap opera writer.
Dominic Messinger is an American television composer. He began his work in soap music on General Hospital, and has since composed for reality series and documentaries including Intervention, Brace for Impact, and for Nickelodeon's teen drama Hollywood Heights. He has won 14 Daytime Emmy Awards.
Anne Schoettle is an American television soap opera writer.
Rick Bennewitz was an American television soap opera director, best known for shooting location sequences for various soap operas. The last episode of Sunset Beach he directed was dedicated to his memory.
Paul F. Antonelli is an American composer, musician, music director, and music supervisor. He began his career in the entertainment world as a keyboardist and founding member of the 1980s synthpop band, Animotion, which had evolved out of his previous band, Red Zone. Animotion would experience mainstream success with their hit single, "Obsession", for which a music video was filmed that prominently featured Antonelli in several scenes.
