Margaret DePriest
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Margaret DePriest is an American daytime serial writer.
She began her career as an actress-both onstage and on television. Her acting credits include a contract role as the first Abby Cameron on The Edge of Night from 1965-1966.
In the middle 1960s, she began writing that soap opera. In 1969, she co-created and was co-headwriter of Where the Heart Is, a soap opera owned by the CBS television network.
She has been a headwriter for the serials General Hospital and Days of our Lives, the soap operas All My Children, Another World, and One Life to Live, and the serial Sunset Beach.
[edit] Positions held
- Head Writer (1988)
- Head Writer (March 1986 - January 1988; May 1996 - January 1997)
- Co-Head Writer (April 19, 1982 - September 21, 1984) with Sheri Anderson
- Co-Head Writer (September 24, 1984 - October 25, 1984) with Sheri Anderson & Thom Racina
- writer (mid-1960s) with Lou Schofield
- Co-Head Writer (1979 - 1981) with Pat Falken Smith
- Head Writer (October 1990 to January 1991)
- Co-Head Writer with Christopher Whitesell (August 1998 - December 1999)
- Co-Creator with Lou Schofield
- Co-Head Writer (1969-1970) with Lou Schofield
[edit] Awards and nominations
- Nomination, 1992, Best Writing, One Life to Live
- Nomination, 1990, Best Writing, All My Children
- Nomination, 1985, Best Writing, Days of our Lives
- Nomination, 1984, Best Writing, Days of our Lives
- Nomination, 1985, Best Writing, General Hospital
Writers Guild of America Award
- Nomination, 1998, Best Writing, Another World
