Addie Walsh
Appearance
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.
Life
In 2020, she was one of the recruits for a fiction app named "Radish" which had $63,000,000 of funding and it was opening an office in LA. The soap writers recruited included Walsh, Janet Iacobuzio, Lisa Connor, Leah Laiman, and Jean Passanante.[1]
Positions held
- Associate head writer: April 2000 – April 2002; July 2003 – January 14, 2008 (hired by Megan McTavish); March 19, 2008 – September 23, 2011
- Co-head writer: 1997
- Associate head writer: 1995–1999
- 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
- 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
- Associate head writer: 1987–1991
- Co-head writer: 1986[citation needed]
- Breakdown Writer: 1982
Awards and nominations
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
References
- ^ Wiseman, Andreas (2020-08-04). "Serialized Fiction App Radish Gets $63M Funding, Opens LA Office & Eyes TV Opportunities". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-05-29.