Michele Val Jean
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Michele Val Jean (b. 1950s) is an American television writer on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
Career[]
In 2000 she was promoted, alongside Elizabeth Korte, to the post of head writer, making her the first African American in the history of daytime television serials to hold the post. [1]
Val Jean wrote the critically acclaimed 1998 re-visitation of Luke Spencer's rape of Laura Spencer, the rape of Elizabeth Webber, Luke and Laura Spencer's 2006 wedding.
Since 2012 she is a script writer of The Bold and the Beautiful.
Positions held[]
Ambitions Will Packer Media OWN Network Consulting Producer Aug 2018–present The Bold and the Beautiful
- Script writer: January 16, 2012 – present
- Occasional breakdown writer: February 2007 – December 26, 2007
- Co-head writer: January 2001 – April 2001
- Breakdown writer: 1996–2000
- Occasional script writer: 1996–2000
- Script writer: 1993–1996, 2002 – December 21, 2007, April 7, 2008 – January 10, 2012
- Script editor: 1993–1995 (hired by Claire Labine)
Generations (hired by Sally Sussman Morina)
- Script Writer: 1989–1990
- Occasional Script Writer: 1997–1998
Santa Barbara (hired by Bridget and Jerome Dobson)
- Breakdown writer: 1992–1993
- Script Writer: 1991
- Script Editor: 1992–1993
Awards and nominations[]
Val Jean has been nominated for several Daytime Emmy Awards.
Writers Guild Of America Award
- 1993–1998 seasons, 6 nominations for General Hospital
- 1991 and 1992 seasons, 2 nominations for Santa Barbara
- Best Daytime Soap Writer (2004, 2006 & 2007)
Head writer tenures[]
External links[]
- ABC Daytime: General Hospital
- Michele Val Jean at IMDb
- SoapCentral
- NewYorkTimes
- ThomRacina
- AlternativeFilmGuide: 2008 WGA Awards
- American soap opera writers
- American women television writers
- American screenwriters
- 1950s births
- Living people
- Women soap opera writers
- 21st-century American women
- American television writer stubs
- American screenwriter stubs