Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of Agnes Nixon's. She left the writing team in 1991 to join the writing staff of Guiding Light. While Broderick wrote for Guiding Light, the show received much critical acclaim, and the early '90s are widely considered to have been a golden era for the show.

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  • Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of Agnes Nixon's. She left the writing team in 1991 to join the writing staff of Guiding Light. While Broderick wrote for Guiding Light, the show received much critical acclaim, and the early '90s are widely considered to have been a golden era for the show. In the spring of 1995, when Megan McTavish was fired from her writing post at All My Children, Broderick left Guiding Light and became the new head writer. Broderick went on to win three consecutive Daytime Emmy awards for her work on the show. She left All My Children in December 1997 when ABC decided to bring back McTavish. In early 1998, Broderick was hired at As the World Turns where her most notable story was the resurrection of evil David Stenbeck and the switch of Lily's baby with another baby. In July 1999, a complete behind-the-scenes overhaul at the show led to Broderick's exit. Shortly after, she was hired by Days of our Lives Executive Producer Ken Corday to helm his show's writing team. However, she was there for less than a month before she left over disagreements with Co-Executive Producer Tom Langan (who would assume the writing duties himself). Reportedly, Langan wanted to rapidly age the next generation of teens and immediately place them in front-burner storylines, while Broderick wanted to phase them in gradually; Broderick's character-driven storytelling style was also reportedly not favored by Langan, who preferred more outlandish plotting. Broderick defected to Port Charles as a staff writer, before being made head writer of One Life to Live in 2001. In 2003, she was demoted to associate head writer upon the returns of famed One Life to Live writing team Michael Malone and Josh Griffith. At that time, ABC reportedly offered her a return to the head writing duties at All My Children, but she declined. Broderick left One Life to Live altogether in 2004, returning as a staff writer for Guiding Light.
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  • Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of Agnes Nixon's. She left the writing team in 1991 to join the writing staff of Guiding Light. While Broderick wrote for Guiding Light, the show received much critical acclaim, and the early '90s are widely considered to have been a golden era for the show.
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