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American screenwriter
Gender:
Female
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Birth:
1953
The details
Biography
Introduction
Addie Walsh (born 1953) is an American television soap opera writer. She last wrote for All My Children. She now writes independently. Her one-woman show, That's All I Got, received an award at the United Solo Festival in 2014, in New York City.
Positions held
All My Children
- Associate head writer: April 2000 – April 2002; July 2003 – January 14, 2008 (hired by Megan McTavish); March 19, 2008 – September 23, 2011
As the World Turns
- Co-head writer: 1997
- Associate head writer: 1995–1999
Days of Our Lives
- Associate head writer: November 7, 1999 – 2000 (hired Sally Sussman Morina), 2002–2003
Guiding Light (hired by Pamela K. Long)
- Associate head writer: 1983–1986, 1993
Loving
- Head writer: 1991–1992 (resigned in 1992 after dispute with Executive Producer Haidee Granger)
- Co-head writer: 1994 (rehired by Josie Emmerich in 1994 and paired with Laurie McCarthy)
Riviera
- Creator: 1990-1991
One Life to Live
- Associate head writer: 1987–1991
Search for Tomorrow
- Co-head writer: 1986
Texas
- Breakdown Writer: 1982
Awards and nominations
Daytime Emmy Awards
WINS
- (1986; Best Writing; Guiding Light)
NOMINATIONS
- (1985; Best Writing; Guiding Light)
- (1990; Best Writing; One Life to Live)
- (1996 & 2000; Best Writing; As the World Turns)
- (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010 & 2012; Best Writing; All My Children)
Writers Guild of America Award
WINS
- (1994 season; Loving)
- (2001, 2002 & 2004 seasons; All My Children)
NOMINATIONS
- (1985 & 1986 seasons; Guiding Light)
- (1998 & 1999 seasons; As the World Turns)
- (2007, 2008, 2010 & 2012 seasons; All My Children)
Head writing tenure
| Preceded by Gary Tomlin | head writer of Search for Tomorrow (with Pamela K. Long) 1986 | Succeeded by Show Canceled |
| Preceded by Mary Ryan Munisteri | head writer of Loving December 1991-June 1992 | Succeeded by Millee Taggart Robert Guza Jr. |
| Preceded by Agnes Nixon | head writer of Loving (with Laurie McCarthy) Fall 1994-Early 1995 | Succeeded by James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten |
| Preceded by Jessica D. Klein | head writer of As the World Turns (with Mel Brez and Stephen Demorest) Late 1997 | Succeeded by Lorraine Broderick |