Name Donna Swajeski Role Television writer | Spouse Michael Opelka (m. 1992) | |
Awards Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team, WGA Award for Best Daytime Drama - Television Shows All My Children, Guiding Light, Another World, The Bold and the Beautiful Similar People David Kreizman, Lorraine Broderick, Gillian Spencer, Lloyd Gold, Claire Labine | ||
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.
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Awards and nominations
As co-head writer for Guiding Light, Swajeski and her team won the 2007 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing. The show was also recognized as the 2007 Daytime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series. She is also a winner of a Writers Guild of America Award for best Daytime writing, also for Guiding Light. She is currently working with children at the Delaware Children's Theater. She is a director, producer and actress.
Daytime Emmy Awards
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Writers Guild of America Award
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Positions held
All My Children
Another World
The Bold and the Beautiful (hired by Bradley Bell)
Guiding Light
Port Charles
Personal life
Swajeski lives in the utopian village of Arden, Delaware with her husband Mike Opelka.