Addie Walsh

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[]

She was born in 1953.

In 2020 she was one of the recruits for a fiction app named "Radish" which had $63m 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[]

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^{[citation needed]}

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

References[]

^ Wiseman, Andreas (2020-08-04). "Serialized Fiction App Radish Gets $63M Funding, Opens LA Office & Eyes TV Opportunities". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-05-29.

External links[]

[radish-1] Wiseman, Andreas (2020-08-04). "Serialized Fiction App Radish Gets $63M Funding, Opens LA Office & Eyes TV Opportunities". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-05-29.

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