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The premise is pretty straightforward: pretend you are a head-writing a soap opera.  (It can be one that is still on the air, it can be one that is no longer on the air, it even can be one you've made up).  If you could choose your staff writers, who would you choose?  And yes, they can be dead or alive.  (I'm sure even a dead person could do a better job writing some of these shows than the live ones who are writing them!)

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I'm going to choose chaos, because I believe that I am good at managing creatives.  Henry Slesar (for interwoven plotting), Harding Lemay (two-handers and mid-week slower episodes),  Patrik-Ian Polk (let's get some new LGBT voices in daytime) and Bridget Dobson and her mother Doris Hursley just to watch that interaction, and inspire the rest of the writer's room.

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As the World Turns

co Head writers (and breakdowns)

Millee Taggart

Nancy Curlee

Stephen Demorest

script writers

Janice Ferri Esser

Susan Dansby

Nancy Ford

Patrick Mulcahey

Frank Salisbury

Script Editor

Courtney Sherman

 

Story Consultants

Robert Soderberg

Edith Somer

Consulting Producers

Allen Potter

Robert Calhoun

I would have to have a big budget to handle this talent.

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Creative consultant: Harding Lemay...just because he would remind us to value the characters and focus on motivation.

Co-headwriters: Pam Long and Nancy Curlee.... Long would provide the energy & warmth while Curlee would provide a Tennessee williams southern gothic element

Script writers:

Melissa Salmons 

Patrick Mulcahey

Susan Dansby

 

 

 

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All My Children: Co Executive Producers Wendy Riche & Linda Gottleib,  head writer Claire Labine to capture the emotional warmth of 90s era GH.

Y&R: Executive Producer ? , Head writer Michael Malone -90s writing style-(for that mystical novelistic work)

Current GH: Headwriter Douglas Marland to manage the large cast, Executove Producer Wendy Riche. Good emotional depth right there. 

B&B: Executive Producer Aaron Spelling

DAYS: Executive Proucer Paul Rauch, head writer Bob Guza for over the top action with an 80s OLTL 90s GH tone.

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DAYS

Head writers: Ron Carlivati and Beth Milstein 

Script editor: Sheri Anderson 

Story consultant: Ryan Quan

Breakdown and script writers: Marlene McPherson, Darrell Thomas Jr., Jamey Giddens, Kirk Doering, Jeanne Marie Ford, Paula Cwikly, Peter Brash, Sally Sussman, Dorell Anthony, and [S.W.S.N.B.N.] (because why not? She has fun ideas)

Executive producer: Stephen Wyman and Tom Langan 

I chose living people only, otherwise James Reilly would be head writer 

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