Lisa Seidman

Lisa Seidman (born April 27, 1957, in Massapequa, New York) is an American television writer who has primarily written for soap operas.^[1] She is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College. Seidman has written episodes for several prime time television drama series, which include CBS-TV's Dallas, for which she wrote thirteen episodes, Falcon Crest and Knots Landing, for which she wrote 7 each, Murder, She Wrote, Cagney & Lacey, and Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

Lisa Seidman
Born	(1957-04-27) April 27, 1957 (age 68) Massapequa, New York, US
Education	Franklin & Marshall College
Occupation	Television screenwriter
Years active	1984–present
Website	https://lisaseidman.wordpress.com/

She also has been nominated numerous times for awards for her screenwriting work on daytime television, twice winning in both 2012 for her work on the NBC-TV soap series Days of Our Lives and in 2014 for her work on The Young and the Restless.

Selected filmography

• Cagney & Lacey: Writer (1984)
• Dallas: Writer/Executive Story Consultant (1990–1991)
• Dangerous Curves: Writer (1992)
• Days of Our Lives: Script Writer (January 10, 2003 – February 21, 2003); Associate Head Writer (December 9, 2008 – August 31, 2011); Breakdown writer (August 19, 2015 – September 2, 2016)
• Falcon Crest Writer/Story Editor (1987–1988)
• General Hospital: Script Writer (January 14, 2020 – present)
• Guiding Light: Script Writer (2002–2003)
• Knots Landing: Head Writer ^{[citation needed]} (January 1992 – May 13, 1993)
• Knots Landing: Back To The Cul-De-Sac Co-Writer (1997)
• Murder, She Wrote: Writer (1994)
• One Life to Live: Script Writer (September 27, 2006 – May 18, 2007)
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Writer (1985)
• Silk Stalkings: Writer (1996)
• Sunset Beach: Breakdown Writer (1999 – December 31, 1999); Script Writer (January 6, 1997 – 1998)
• The Young and the Restless: Breakdown Writer (October 18, 2012 – November 9, 2012, January 26, 2017 – January 18, 2018); Writer (July 7, 2008 – October 2008), Associate Head Writer (November 12, 2012 – December 16, 2014)

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards

• 2014 – Won - Daytime Emmy Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, for The Young and the Restless
• 2012 – Won - Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team, for Days of Our Lives
• 2003 – Nominated - Best Writing; for Guiding Light)

Writers Guild of America Award

• 2002 – Nominated - Daytime Serials, for Guiding Light
• 1997 – Won – Daytime Serials, for Sunset Beach
• 1998 – Nominated - (TV) Daytime Serials for Sunset Beach
• 2003 – Nominated - (TV) Daytime Serials for Guiding Light
• 2014 – Nominated - (TV) Daytime Serials for The Young and The Restless