Nancy Williams Watt is an American writer known for her work on television

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. She was born in Brooklyn, NY on June 9, 1948, to Associated Press editor Edward Williams and newswoman Sheila O'Brien Williams Barnes.

Positions held

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'' *Secretary to Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Jack Wood, Lorraine Broderick, Caroline Franz et al. (1979–1981) ''

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'' *Script Writer (April 2, 2012 – July 27, 2012) *Associate Head Writer (September 13, 2011 – March 30, 2012) ''

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'' *Script Writer/Breakdown Writer (1983–1985) ''

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'' (hired by James E. Reilly) *Script Writer (1999 – September 2007) ''

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'' *Script Writer/Outline Writer (1986–1993) *Co-Head Writer (1994 – November 1994) *Script Editor/Associate Headwriter (1993–1999)

Awards and nominations

She has been nominated for nine

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awards in the category Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team from 1989 to 2003, and won three times, twice for Guiding Light in 1990 and 1993 and also for Days of Our Lives in 2011–2012. Her first nomination was shared with

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, Nancy Curlee, Stephen Demorest,

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, Pete T. Rich, Melissa Salmons, and

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, while her first win was shared with the previous plus

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, Peter Brash, and Patty Gideon Sloan. Williams Watt has also been nominated for seven

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, in the Daytime Serials category, from 1989 to 2001, and won once in 1992. Her first nomination was shared with

, Stephen Demorest,

, Melissa Salmons, Pete T. Rich, Nancy Curlee,

, and

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, while her win was shared with the latter, minus Jones, Culliton and Franklin, and including James E. Reilly, Bill Elverman, and

Michael Conforti Michael Conforti is an American television writer on the soap opera ''The Young and the Restless''. He played Jeremy Rhodes on '' Edge of Night'', and Wally Bacon on ''Guiding Light''. Conforti later became a writer for the soap opera ''Guiding L ...

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WINS *(1990 & 1993; Best Writing; ''Guiding Light'') *(2012; Best Writing; ''Days of Our Lives'') NOMINATIONS *(1989, 1992 & 1999; Best Writing; ''Guiding Light'') *(2001, 2002 & 2003; Best Writing; ''Passions'')

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 ...

WINS *(1992 season; ''Guiding Light'') *(2014 season; ''Days of Our Lives'') NOMINATIONS *(1989, 1995, 1996, 1998 & 1999 seasons; ''Guiding Light'') *(2001 season; ''Passions'') *(2013 season; ''Days of Our Lives'')

Head writing tenure

External links

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