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Name
  
Nancy Curlee

Role
  
TV Writer


Spouse
  
Stephen Dest

Shows
  
Guiding Light

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

Similar People
  
James E Reilly, Lorraine Broderick, Pam Long, Melissa Salmons, Patrick Mulcahey

Nancy Curlee is an American soap opera writer. She was head writer of Guiding Light from 1990 to 1994. Her time at the helm of GL is often considered a golden period for the show.

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Curlee is married to fellow soap opera writer Stephen Demorest. She retired to be a full time mother. She has been nominated for several Daytime Emmy Awards. In 1993, Curlee and her GL writing team won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team.

Her last GL writing team consisted of Stephen Demorest, Lorraine Broderick, James E. Reilly, Nancy Williams Watt, Michael Conforti, Bill Elverman, James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten, Roger Newman, Trent Jones, N. Gail Lawrence, Pete T. Rich, Sally Mandel, Patrick Mulcahey, Dorothy Ann Purser, Peggy Schibi, Courtney Simon, and Wisner Washam

Positions held

Guiding Light

  • Co-head writer: 1990 - 1994
  • Breakdown Writer: 1987 - 1990
  • Script Writer: 1985 - 1990
  • ABC Daytime

  • Story Consultant: 1996 - 1998
  • Awards and nominations

    Daytime Emmy Awards

    WINS

  • (1986, 1990 & 1993; Best Writing; Guiding Light)
  • NOMINATIONS

  • (1989 & 1992; Best Writing; Guiding Light)
  • Writers Guild of America Award

    WINS

  • (1992 season; Guiding Light)
  • NOMINATIONS

  • (1989 & 1995 seasons; Guiding Light)
  • References

    Nancy Curlee Wikipedia