Lynsey DuFour is an American television

soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...

writer.

Positions held

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'' *Script Writer: 2009 ''

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'' *Story Editor ''

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'' *Script Editor: October 2007 - December 24, 2007 *Associate Head Writer: 2007 - December 24, 2007 *Breakdown Writer: January 2007 - 2007 *Script Writer: September 2006 - January 2007 *Production Staff : 2004 – August 2006 Daytime Dish *Talk show about soap operas that was created in the spring of 2003 by Erica Meyer and Lynsey DuFour. Previous hosts include Hadley Klein and Katie Pelton.

Awards and nominations

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, 2006 season, Best Writing, ''The Young And The Restless'' (

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, Sara A. Bibel,

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, Natalie Minardi Slater, Lynsey DuFour,

Janice Ferri Esser Janice Ferri Esser (sometimes credited only as ''Janice Ferri'') is an American writer known for her work on the daytime television serials ''The Young and the Restless'' and ''The Bold and the Beautiful''. Positions held ''The Young and the Rest ...

, Eric Freiwald, Marc Hertz,

Bernard Lechowick Bernard Lechowick is an American television writer and producer. He grew up in Mentor, Ohio and is a father of two sons, Richard Latham Lechowick and Vincent Latham Lechowick.Linda Schreiber,

Sandra Weintraub Sandra Weintraub Roland is an American soap opera writer and producer. She is most notable for her writing on CBS's The Young and the Restless, which she has written in different positions since 1998. In the 1970s she was also notable for her clo ...

, and Sherman Magidson.)

Daytime Emmy Award The Daytime Emmy Awards, or Daytime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ...

* Nomination, 2006 season, Best Writing, "The Young And The Restless"

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