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Leah Laiman
Leah Laiman (born August 29, 1946 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist. Career Laiman got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s at General Hospital. Laiman succeeded former Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, along with novelist Thom Racina. The pair began working on the show during its heyday, including Luke Spencer and Laura Spencer (General Hospital), Laura Webber's widely publicized 1981 wedding, which included notable Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor. After three years on GH, Laiman followed Racina to ''Days of Our Lives'' to work with Sheri Anderson where the three wrote several stories, including Bo and Hope's wedding in England, and co-created the characters of Steve Johnson (Days of Our Lives), Steve "Patch" Johnson and John Black (Days of Our Lives), John Black. In 1986, Laiman became sole head writer and created the character of Jack Deveraux and further developed the popular romance of Steve Johnson and Kayla Brady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a population of , it is the economic and technological center of the country. If East Jerusalem is considered part of Israel, Tel Aviv is the country's second most populous city after Jerusalem; if not, Tel Aviv is the most populous city ahead of West Jerusalem. Tel Aviv is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, headed by Mayor Ron Huldai, and is home to many foreign embassies. It is a beta+ world city and is ranked 57th in the 2022 Global Financial Centres Index. Tel Aviv has the third- or fourth-largest economy and the largest economy per capita in the Middle East. The city currently has the highest cost of living in the world. Tel Aviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Deveraux
Jack Deveraux is a fictional character from ''Days of Our Lives'', an American soap opera on the NBC network, most famously played by actor Matthew Ashford since 1987. He is a member of the Johnson family and first appeared onscreen in 1987. Ashford is the third actor to play in the role, and appeared regularly from 1987 through 1993 and from 2001 to 2006, with a few minor breaks in between, in addition to a small guest stint in 2007. In September 2011, after a four-year absence, the character returned to reconnect with his estranged family. His return was short-lived when it was announced that Ashford had been let go, last appearing on August 15, 2012, when the character was killed off in an elevator shaft. From 2016 to 2017, Ashford reprised the role for several guest-appearances; he returned full-time on December 28, 2018. The character has also been portrayed for lesser stints by actors Mark Valley, Steve Wilder, and Jon Lindstrom. Many of his storylines have included his re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Culliton
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. Early career Culliton began his television career in the early 1980s writing for NBC Daytime's ''Texas'', and then serving as co-head writer for CBS Daytime's ''Guiding Light'' from 1983–1984. After this, he served as head writer of '' Another World'' from 1984–1985. The characters of Marley Hudson and Wallingford were created during his tenure. He wrote for ''Search for Tomorrow'' under Addie Walsh in 1986. In the late 1980s, Culliton returned to the writing staff of ''Guiding Light''. He was part of the team that won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1990. Culliton then joined the writing staff of '' Santa Barbara''; he was a script writer and story editor when the writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maura Penders
Maura Penders is an American television soap opera writer. Positions held '' Another World'' * Associate Head Writer (1998– June 25, 1999) * Script Writer (1998) ''Days of Our Lives'' (hired by Anne Howard Bailey, then by Tom Langan) * Associate Head Writer (1989–1997, 2000–2002) * Occasional Script Writer (1989–1997, 2000–2002) ''Guiding Light'' *Associate Writer (2000) ''Port Charles'' *Associate Head Writer (1997) ''Ryan's Hope'' *Script Writer (1984–1986) Awards and nominations Daytime Emmy Award *Nomination, 1994 and 1997, Best Writing, ''Days of our Lives'' Writers Guild of America Award The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949. Eligibility Th ... *Nomination, 1991 and 1993, Best Writing, ''Days of our Lives'' *Nomination, 1986, Best Writing, ''Ryan's Hope'' Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Wiggin
Tom Wiggin (born July 6, 1955) is an American actor, writer and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the role of nefarious businessman Kirk Anderson on the long-running soap opera ''As the World Turns''. Early life, family and education Wiggin was born in New York City and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He began acting in community theater at age eight. He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, where he continued to act while playing three varsity sports. He attended Columbia University in New York for three semesters, then left to pursue his acting career. Career Wiggin has acted professionally on stage, TV and in films. He has also written for two soap operas ('' Another World'' and ''As the World Turns'') and had one screenplay optioned (''Gift of the Robin's Nest''). Wiggin started his career in New York City. He landed the role of Danny Zuko in a national tour of '' Grease'' and eventually joined the Broadway cast. He left ''Grease'' to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Maria Censabella
Laura Maria Censabella is an American playwright and screenwriter. She has been awarded three grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts; two in playwriting for '' Abandoned in Queens'' and '' Three Italian Women'', and The Geri Ashur Award in Screenwriting for her original screenplay '' Truly Mary''. She is the Director of The Playwrights Unit of the Ensemble Studio Theatre Works and awards Her short play '' Posing'' was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and '' The Actual Footage'' won the 2000 Tennessee Chapbook Prize for Drama. Both plays are published in Poems & Plays. She has written the short film adaptation Physics for HBO's Women: Breaking The Rules series, and she has won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on ''As the World Turns''. Her first Emmy win in 2001 was shared with Hogan Sheffer (head writer), Leah Laiman (head writer), Carolyn Culliton (co-head writer), Stephen Demorest, Hal Corley, Stephanie Braxton, Jeff Beldner, Tom Casiello, Susan Dansby, Judith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Salmons
Melissa Salmons is an American writer known for her work on television soap operas, known for her work on Days of Our Lives. Positions held '' Another World'' *Script Writer (1999 – June 25, 1999) ''As the World Turns'' *Script Writer (1997–1998, July 21, 2004 – August 4, 2006) ''Days of Our Lives'' *Script Writer (August 17, 2012 – November 1, 2016) ''Guiding Light'' *Script Writer (1987–1991, 2000 – July 2004) ''One Life to Live'' *Script Writer (May 26, 2009 – January 13, 2012) ''The Young and the Restless'' *Script Writer (October 22, 2008 – March 23, 2009) Awards and nominations Daytime Emmy Awards WINS *(1990; Best Writing; ''Guiding Light'') *(2005; Best Writing; ''As the World Turns'') NOMINATIONS *(1989, 1992 & 2003; Best Writing; ''Guiding Light'') *(2006; Best Writing; ''As the World Turns'') *(2014; Best Writing; ''Days of Our Lives'') Writers Guild of America Award The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Demorest
Stephen Demorest is an American soap opera writer. He is married to Nancy Curlee. Positions held ''All My Children'' *Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008 '' Another World'' *Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999 ::The Last AW Writing Team ::*Leah Laiman (Head Writer), Jean Passanante (co-Head Writer), Gordon Rayfield, Courtney Simon, Eleanor Labine, Stephen Demorest, Melissa Salmons, Laura Maria Censabella, Judy Tate, Tom Wiggin, Tom King, Maura Penders, Richard Culliton, Shelly Altman, Carolyn Culliton, Richard J. Allen, Sofia Landon Geier, Lynn Martin, Gillian Spencer, Mary Sue Price, Edwin Klein ''As the World Turns'' *Associate Head Writer (1996–1998; August 1999 - August 31, 2001) * Co-Head Writer: Late 1997 - March 1998 ''General Hospital'' *Associate Head Writer: 1998 - 1999 *Script Writer: 1998 ''Guiding Light'' *Co-Head Writer: 1990 - 1994 *Associate Head Writer: 1985 - 1990 ''One Life to Live'' *Script Writer: December 5, 2003 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Passanante
Jean Passanante (born June 26, 1953) is an American television screenwriter, best known for her work in daytime soap operas. Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including John Sayles's ''Return of the Secaucus 7'' and ''Lianna''. She later became a soap opera writer. Early life Passanante was born on June 26, 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri, one of three daughters born to to Bart, a physician, and Alberta Passanante. Her sisters are Joy and Judy. She graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1971. She attended Dartmouth College. Career Acting Passanante was in ''Return of the Secaucus 7'' (1980) and ''Lianna'' (1983), both John Sayles films. Writing Passanante got her start on soaps working as a staff writer on the ABC Daytime drama '' One Life to Live'' from 1992 to 1996. In 1996 she was promoted to the top position of Head Writer, only to be replaced in 1997. She remained as a staff writer until 1998, at which time she was made Co-Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Connor
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''. In 2020 she was one of the recruits for a fiction app named "Radish" which had $63m of funding and it was opening an office in LA. The soap writers recruited included Janet Iacobuzio, Addie Walsh, Leah Laiman, and Jean Passanante. Positions held ''All My Children'' *Co-Head Writer: May 29, 2013 - September 2013 (hired by Prospect Park) *Script Editor: Jan 29, 2013 - September 2013 (hired by Ginger Smith) *Script Writer: May 3, 2010 - December 2010 (hired by Lorraine Broderick) *Breakdown Writer: April 2002 - January 5, 2005; January 6, 2011 - September 23, 2011 (hired by Richard Culliton) *Supervising Producer: 1999 - March 2002 (hired by Jean Dadario Burke) ''As the World Turns'' *Script Writer: June 30, 2008 - December 2008 *Breakdown Writer: 1997 - 1999; March 3, 2005 - January 24, 2008; April 18, 2008 - June 27, 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addie Walsh
Addie Walsh (born 1953) is an American television soap opera writer. She last wrote for ''All My Children''. She now writes independently. Her one-woman show, ''That's All I Got'', received an award at the United Solo Festival in 2014, in New York City. Life In 2020, she was one of the recruits for a fiction app named "Radish" which had $63,000,000 of funding and it was opening an office in LA. The soap writers recruited included Walsh, Janet Iacobuzio, Lisa Connor, Leah Laiman, and Jean Passanante. Positions held ''All My Children'' *Associate head writer: April 2000 – April 2002; July 2003 – January 14, 2008 (hired by Megan McTavish); March 19, 2008 – September 23, 2011 ''As the World Turns'' * Co-head writer: 1997 *Associate head writer: 1995–1999 ''Days of Our Lives'' *Associate head writer: November 7, 1999 – 2000 (hired Sally Sussman Morina), 2002–2003 ''Guiding Light'' (hired by Pamela K. Long) *Associate head writer: 1983–1986, 1993 '' Loving'' *Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As The World Turns
''As the World Turns'' (often abbreviated as ''ATWT'') is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created ''As the World Turns'' as a sister show to her other soap opera ''Guiding Light''. With 13,763 hours of cumulative narrative, ''As the World Turns'' has the longest total running time of any television show. In terms of continuous run of production, ''As the World Turns'' at 54 years holds the fourth-longest run of any daytime network soap opera on American television, surpassed only by '' General Hospital'', ''Guiding Light'', and '' Days of Our Lives''. ''As the World Turns'' was produced for its first 43 years in Manhattan and in Brooklyn from 2000 until 2010. Set in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, the show debuted on April 2, 1956, at 1:30 p.m. EST, airing as a 30-minute serial. Prior to that date, all serials had been 15 minutes in length. ''As the World Turns'' and ''The Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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