Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from July 30, 1984, to January 15, 1993. The show revolves around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Other prominent families featured on the soap were the rival Lockridge family, and the more modest Andrade and Perkins families.
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.
Pamela K. Long is an American writer and executive producer. Long won several Emmys for her work on CBS soap opera Guiding Light from 1983 to 1990. She was also writer and executive producer on the NBC film Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors.
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.
Allison Samuel Hall, known as Sam Hall, was a screenwriter known for his work in daytime soap operas, particularly Dark Shadows and One Life to Live. Hall also co-wrote the 1976 PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles.
Bridget and Jerome Dobson are American writers and artists.
Meg Bennett is an American television soap opera writer and occasional actress. She is married to ex-General Hospital head writer Robert Guza Jr.
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.
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.
Gary Tomlin is an American soap opera actor, writer, producer and director.
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.
Jane Atkins is an American film & television writer and actress. She is a native of Florida. As an actress, she has performed with the American Conservatory Theater, the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the London Young Vic. Atkins is a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She has worked for Disney, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Lifetime TV as well as penning several nature documentaries which aired on PBS. She served as Director of Playmaking for the Virginia Avenue Project.
Peter Brash 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.
Sofia Landon Geier is a television soap opera writer and actress. She is also credited as Sofia Landon or Sophia Landon.
N. Gail Lawrence is an American television soap opera writer.
Pete T. Rich is an American television soap opera script writer. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the WGA and continued working.
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 was an American television writer, actress, playwright, memoirist, and short fiction writer. She attended Michigan State University and was 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.
