Lisa Seidman
Lisa Seidman is an American television writer who has primarily written for soap operas. 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.
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
- Dallas: Writer/Executive Story Consultant
- Dangerous Curves: Writer
- Days of Our Lives: Script Writer ; Associate Head Writer ; Breakdown writer
- Falcon Crest Writer/Story Editor
- General Hospital: Script Writer
- Guiding Light: Script Writer
- Knots Landing: Head Writer
- Knots Landing: Back To The Cul-De-Sac Co-Writer
- Murder, She Wrote: Writer
- One Life to Live: Script Writer
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Writer
- Silk Stalkings: Writer
- Sunset Beach: Breakdown Writer ; Script Writer
- The Young and the Restless: Breakdown Writer ; Writer, Associate Head Writer
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)
- 2002 – Nominated - Daytime Serials, for Guiding Light
- 1997 – Won – Daytime Serials, for Sunset Beach
- 1998 – Nominated - Daytime Serials for Sunset Beach
- 2003 – Nominated - Daytime Serials for Guiding Light
- 2014 – Nominated - Daytime Serials for ''The Young and The Restless''