Linda Gottlieb

Linda Gottlieb is an American television writer and film producer. She is best known for her work as a producer on Dirty Dancing, as well as her work as executive producer on One Life to Live.

Biography

Born in New Jersey, Gottlieb graduated from Wellesley College and received an M.A. from Columbia University in history.
Gottlieb was a presenter on Face of a Stranger, written by Marsha Norman. She was also executive producer of the 2003 film Soldier's Girl.
As of 2011, Gottlieb lived in New York City with her husband.

Career

Production credits

Films

Limbo, film starring Kate JacksonThe Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey
The Fur Coat Club, film shortSummer of My German Soldier, made-for-TV movieThe Mating Season
We're Fighting Back, TV movie
The Electric Grandmother, a television movie that originally aired on NBC as a 60-minute "Peacock Project" specialDirty Dancing Citizen Cohn cable TV film
The Gentleman Bandit
''Soldier's Girl''

Television episodes, series, and specials

13 Bourbon Street, TV pilotOne Life to Live ; replaced Paul Rauch; hired Michael Malone and Josh Griffith. Entertainment Weekly wrote: "OLTL was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit daytime—too good to be called 'soap opera.'"SoapLine, a TV series characterized as "a joint production of ABC News and ABC Daytime to bring viewers storyline updates, special features and interviews during breaks in live, pre-emptive coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial"

Teaching

She is an adjunct professor at Tisch School of the Arts.

Awards and nominations

Gottlieb has been nominated for 5 Daytime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Children's Anthology/Dramatic Programming, and Outstanding Children's Entertainment Special , for three Emmy Awards, and for an Independent Spirit Award and a Peabody Award.