Lisa Seidman

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Years active 1984–present Name Lisa Seidman		Role Television writer
Born April 27, 1957 (age 67) ( 1957-04-27 ) Massapequa, New York, US Occupation Television screenwriter Website https://lisaseidman.wordpress.com/ Education Franklin & Marshall College Awards Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team Nominations WGA Award for Best Daytime Drama - Television Shows The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives Similar People Beth Milstein, Natalie Minardi Slater, Rick Draughon, Janice Ferri Esser, Brent Boyd

Lisa Seidman (born April 27, 1957 in Massapequa, New York) is an American television writer who has primarily written for soap operas. She is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College. Seidman has written episodes for several prime time television drama series, which include CBS-TV's Dallas, for which she wrote thirteen episodes, Falcon Crest and Knots Landing, for both which she wrote 7 for, Murder She Wrote, Cagney & Lacey, and Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

She also has been nominated numerous times for awards for her screenwrting work on daytime television, twice winning in both 2012 for her work on the NBC-TV soap series Days of Our Lives and in 2014 for her work on The Young and the Restless.

Selected filmography

Cagney and Lacey: Writer (1984)

Dallas: Writer/Executive Story Consultant (1990–1991)

Dangerous Curves: Writer (1992)

Days of Our Lives: Script Writer (January 10, 2003 – February 21, 2003); Associate Head Writer (December 9, 2008 – August 31, 2011); Breakdown writer (August 19, 2015 – September 2, 2016)

Falcon Crest Writer/Story Editor (1987–1988)

General Hospital: Script Writer

Guiding Light: Script Writer (2002–2003)

Knots Landing: Head Writer (January 1992 – May 13, 1993)

Knots Landing: Back To The Cul-De-Sac Co-Writer (1997)

Murder, She Wrote: Writer (1994)

One Life to Live: Script Writer (September 27, 2006 – May 18, 2007)

Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Writer (1985)

Silk Stalkings: Writer (1996)

Sunset Beach: Breakdown Writer (1999 – December 31, 1999); Script Writer (January 6, 1997 – 1998)

The Young and the Restless: Breakdown Writer (October 18, 2012 – November 9, 2012, January 26, 2017 – Present); Writer (July 7, 2008 – October 2008), Associate Head Writer (November 12, 2012 – N/A)

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards

2014 – Won - Daytime Emmy Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, for The Young and the Restless

2012 – Won - Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team, for Days of Our Lives

2003 – Nominated - Best Writing; for The Guiding Light)

Writers Guild of America Award

2002 – Nominated - Daytime Serials, for The Guiding Light

1997 – Won – Daytime Serials, for Sunset Beach

1998 – Nominated - (TV) Daytime Serials for Sunset Beach

2003 – Nominated - (TV) Daytime Serials for The Guiding Light

2014 – Nominated - (TV) Daytime Serials for The Young and The Restless

References

Lisa Seidman Wikipedia

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Selected filmography

Awards and nominations

References