Megan McTavish

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Megan McTavish (born April 30, 1949 in Pembroke, New Hampshire) is an American soap opera writer, most known for her head writing stints on All My Children. Before writing for the soaps, she was a popular stage actress heaquartered in Chicago. Notably she played Penelope in the National Radio Theater's Peabody Award-winning radio dramatization of Homer's Odyssey (1980). Later, she played Lola Fontaine on Guiding Light from 1983 to 1984.

Starting as a writer on the Procter and Gamble Productions's Texas, she was also a writer for the company's Guiding Light. She helmed All My Children from 1992 to 1995 and from 1997 to 1999. Her first stint was critically lauded, using characters and storylines that hearkened back to the show's golden era in the late 1970s and 1980s. McTavish was fired from AMC, then wrote Guiding Light from 1995 to 1997. She was fired from AMC for a second time, then went to One Life To Live, which she wrote from 1999 to 2001.

[edit] Positions Held

All My Children

Head Writer (December 1997 - June 1999; July 1, 2003 - Present)
Co-Head Writer (September 1992 - May 1995)
Breakdown Writer (1987-1992)

General Hospital

Head Writer (2001- June 12 2002)
Co-Head Writer (June 13, 2002 - July 2002)

Guiding Light

Head Writer (1995-1996)
Associate Head Writer (1985-1986)
Script Writer (1984-1985)
Actress: Lola Fontaine (1983-1984)

One Life to Live

Head Writer (1999-2001)

Preceded by Wisner Washam	Head Writer of All My Children 1992-1995	Succeeded by Agnes Nixon, Lorraine Broderick
Preceded by Douglas Anderson	Head Writer of Guiding Light 1995-1996	Succeeded by Michael Conforti, Victor Miller
Preceded by Agnes Nixon, Lorraine Broderick	Head Writer of All My Children 1997-1999	Succeeded by Agnes Nixon
Preceded by No head writer, Jill Farren Phelps de facto	Head Writer of One Life to Live 1999-2001	Succeeded by Lorraine Broderick Christopher Whitesell
Preceded by Michele Val Jean	Head Writer of General Hospital 2001-2002	Succeeded by Robert Guza Jr. Charles Pratt Jr. (co-HW)
Preceded by Anna Cascio Gordon Rayfield	Head Writer of All My Children 2003-Present	Succeeded by Incumbent