Addie Walsh

Addie Walsh (born 1953) is an American television soap opera writer. She last wrote for All My Children. She now writes independently.

Life

Walsh graduated from Smith College where she was a student of Len Berkman.^{[1][better source needed]}

Her one-woman show, That's All I Got, received an award at the United Solo Festival in 2014, in New York City.^[2]

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.^[3]

Walsh is also an actor, and has acted in the play "Three Tall Women".^[4]

Filmography

Walsh's roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1982	Texas	Breakdown writer
1983–1986	Guiding Light	Associate head writer	Hired by Pamela K. Long
1986	Search for Tomorrow	Co-head writer		[5]
1987–1991	One Life to Live	Associate head writer
1990–91	Riviera	Creator		[6]
1991–92	Loving	Head writer	Resigned in 1992 after dispute with executive producer Haidee Granger[citation needed]	[7]
1993	Guiding Light	Associate head writer
1994	Loving	Co-head writer	Rehired by Josie Emmerich in 1994 and paired with Laurie McCarthy	[8]
1995–99	As the World Turns	Associate head writer		[9]
1997	As the World Turns	Co-head writer
2000–11	All My Children	Associate head writer	Position held April 2000 – April 2002; July 2003 – January 14, 2008 (hired by Megan McTavish); and March 19, 2008 – September 23, 2011
1999 – 2000	Days of Our Lives	Associate head writer	November 7, 1999 – 2000 (hired by Sally Sussman Morina)
2002–2003	Days of Our Lives	Associate head writer

Awards and nominations

Awards for Walsh's writing

Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
1985	Guiding Light	Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Nominee	[citation needed]
		Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[citation needed]
1986		Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Winner	[10]
		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Nominee	[citation needed]
1990	One Life to Live	Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[citation needed]
1994	Loving	Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Winner	[11]
1996	As the World Turns	Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[citation needed]
1998		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Nominee	[citation needed]
1999		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Nominee	[citation needed]
2000		Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[citation needed]
2001	All My Children	Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[12]
		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Winner	[citation needed]
2002		Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[13]
		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Winner	[citation needed]
2003		Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[citation needed]
2004		Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[citation needed]
		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Winner	[citation needed]
2007		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Nominee	[citation needed]
2008		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Nominee	[citation needed]
2009		Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[citation needed]
		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Nominee	[14]
2010		Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[citation needed]
		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Nominee	[14]
2012		Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing	Nominee	[citation needed]
		Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials	Nominee	[14]

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