Addie Walsh

{{short description|American television soap opera writer (born 1953)}}

Addie Walsh (born 1953) is an American television soap opera writer. She last wrote for All My Children. She now writes independently.

Life

Walsh graduated from Smith College where she was a student of Len Berkman.{{Cite web |title=Len Berkman |url=https://www.smith.edu/people/len-berkman |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=www.smith.edu |language=en}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=December 2023}}

Her one-woman show, That's All I Got, received an award at the United Solo Festival in 2014, in New York City.{{Cite web |title=The 5th Annual United Solo Theatre Festival |url=https://unitedsolo.org/the-2014-united-solo-awards-have-been-announced/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=United Solo |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327203743/https://unitedsolo.org/the-2014-united-solo-awards-have-been-announced/ |url-status=live }}

In 2020, she was one of the recruits for a fiction app named "Radish" which had $63,000,000 of funding and it was opening an office in LA. The soap writers recruited included Walsh, Janet Iacobuzio, Lisa Connor, Leah Laiman, and Jean Passanante.{{Cite web|last=Wiseman|first=Andreas|date=2020-08-04|title=Serialized Fiction App Radish Gets $63M Funding, Opens LA Office & Eyes TV Opportunities|url=https://deadline.com/2020/08/serialized-fiction-app-radish-gets-63m-funding-opens-la-office-eyes-tv-opportunities-1203003354/|access-date=2021-05-29|website=Deadline|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602212400/https://deadline.com/2020/08/serialized-fiction-app-radish-gets-63m-funding-opens-la-office-eyes-tv-opportunities-1203003354/|url-status=live}}

Walsh is also an actor, and has acted in the play "Three Tall Women".{{Cite news |last=Adams |first=Barbara |date=2006-03-23 |title='Three Tall Women': three strong performances |pages=28 |work=The Ithaca Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal-three-tall-women-t/136633163/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |archive-date=2023-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211181057/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal-three-tall-women-t/136633163/ |url-status=live }}

Filmography

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|+Walsh's roles

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

!Ref.

1982

|Texas

|Breakdown writer

1983–1986

|Guiding Light

|Associate head writer

|Hired by Pamela K. Long

1986

|Search for Tomorrow

|Co-head writer

|{{Cite news |last=Passalacqua |first=Connie |date=1986-08-03 |title=Soap Scoop |pages=135 |work=Wisconsin State Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal-soap-scoop/136633227/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |archive-date=2023-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211181056/https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal-soap-scoop/136633227/ |url-status=live }}

1987–1991

|One Life to Live

|Associate head writer

1990–91

|Riviera

|Creator

|{{Cite news |date=21 May 2007 |title=Un soap bien épicé |pages=2 |work=Le Monde|location= Paris }}

1991–92

|Loving

|Head writer

|Resigned in 1992 after dispute with executive producer Haidee Granger{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

|{{Cite news |last=Reichardt |first=Nancy M. |date=1992-11-12 |title=Tune in tomorrow |pages=49 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-tune-in-tomorrow/136633319/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |archive-date=2023-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211181057/https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-tune-in-tomorrow/136633319/ |url-status=live }}

1993

|Guiding Light

|Associate head writer

1994

|Loving

|Co-head writer

|Rehired by Josie Emmerich in 1994 and paired with Laurie McCarthy

|{{Cite news |last=Havens |first=Candace |date=1995-01-14 |title=Daytime couples are ringing in new year |pages=26 |work=The Daily Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times-daytime-couples-are-ring/136633288/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |archive-date=2023-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211181057/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-times-daytime-couples-are-ring/136633288/ |url-status=live }}

1995–99

|As the World Turns

|Associate head writer

|{{Cite news |last=Havens |first=Candace |date=1995-07-31 |title='As the World Turns' dropped the ax again |pages=68 |work=The Stuart News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-stuart-news-as-the-world-turns-dro/136633204/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |archive-date=2023-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211181057/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-stuart-news-as-the-world-turns-dro/136633204/ |url-status=live }}

1997

|As the World Turns

|Co-head writer

2000–11

|All My Children

|Associate head writer

|Position held April 2000 – April 2002; July 2003 – January 14, 2008 (hired by Megan McTavish); and March 19, 2008 – September 23, 2011

1999 – 2000

|Days of Our Lives

|Associate head writer

|November 7, 1999 – 2000 (hired by Sally Sussman Morina)

2002–2003

|Days of Our Lives

|Associate head writer

Awards and nominations

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|+Awards for Walsh's writing

!Year

!Title

!Award

!Result

!Ref.

rowspan="2" |1985

| rowspan="4" |Guiding Light

|Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

rowspan="2" |1986

|Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing

|Winner

|{{Cite news |last=Margulies |first=Lee |date=22 July 1986 |title=Oops! Wrong Series Gets Emmy Award |pages=10 |work=Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext); Los Angeles, Calif.}}

Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

1990

|One Life to Live

|Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

1994

|Loving

|Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials

|Winner

|{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=David J. |date=1994-03-14 |title='Schindler's' adds a pair to the list |pages=20 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-schindlers-adds/136633411/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |archive-date=2023-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211181057/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-schindlers-adds/136633411/ |url-status=live }}

1996

| rowspan="4" |As the World Turns

|Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

1998

|Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

1999

|Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

2000

|Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

rowspan="2" |2001

| rowspan="15" |All My Children

|Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing

|Nominee

|{{Cite news |last=King |first=Susan |date=6 Mar 2001 |title=Writers honored in film, TV, radio |page=E5 |work=Seattle Times; Seattle, Wash.}}

Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials

|Winner

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

rowspan="2" |2002

|Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing

|Nominee

|{{Cite news |last=King |first=Susan |date=2002-03-03 |title=Writers Honor 'Gosford Park,' 'Beautiful Mind' |pages=141 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-writers-honor-gos/136633375/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |archive-date=2023-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211181058/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-writers-honor-gos/136633375/ |url-status=live }}

Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials

|Winner

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

2003

|Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

rowspan="2" |2004

|Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing

|Nominee

|{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials