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Name
  
Michele Jean


Role
  
Television writer

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Awards
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team, WGA Award for Best Daytime Drama - Television

Shows
  
General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful

Similar People
  
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Michele Val Jean (b. 1950s) is an American television writer on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.

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Career

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In 2000 she was promoted, alongside Elizabeth Korte, to the post of head writer, making her the first African American in the history of daytime television serials to hold the post. [1]

Val Jean wrote the critically acclaimed 1998 re-visitation of Luke Spencer's rape of Laura Spencer, the rape of Elizabeth Webber, Luke and Laura Spencer's 2006 wedding.

Since 2012 she is a script writer of The Bold and the Beautiful.

Positions held

The Bold and the Beautiful

  • Script writer: January 16, 2012 – present

    • General Hospital

  • Occasional breakdown writer: February 2007 – December 26, 2007
  • Co-head writer: January 2001 – April 2001
  • Breakdown writer: 1996–2000
  • Occasional script writer: 1996–2000
  • Script writer: 1993–1996, 2002 – December 21, 2007, April 7, 2008 – January 10, 2012
  • Script editor: 1993–1995 (hired by Claire Labine)

    • Generations (hired by Sally Sussman Morina)

  • Script Writer: 1989–1990

    • Port Charles

  • Occasional Script Writer: 1997–1998

    • Santa Barbara (hired by Bridget and Jerome Dobson)

  • Breakdown writer: 1992–1993
  • Script Writer: 1991
  • Script Editor: 1992–1993

    • Jake and the Fatman

    Awards and nominations

    Val Jean has been nominated for several Daytime Emmy Awards.

    Writers Guild Of America Award

  • 1993–1998 seasons, 6 nominations for General Hospital
  • 1991 and 1992 seasons, 2 nominations for Santa Barbara

    • TV Guide

  • Best Daytime Soap Writer (2004, 2006 & 2007)

    • References

    Michele Val Jean Wikipedia
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