- Donna Swajeski
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Donna Swajeski is an American television soap opera screenwriter with experience at all three major American networks. She has been a head writer, co-head writer and screenwriter on award winning daytime drama for NBC Daytime, ABC Daytime and CBS Daytime.
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Awards/Nominations
As co-head writer for Guiding Light, Swajeski won the 2007 Daytime Emmy Award for Best Writing and the show was also recognized as the 2007 Daytime Emmy winner for Best Drama. She is also a winner of a Writers Guild of America Award for best daytime writing (also for Guiding Light).
Positions held
- Program Executive: 1980s
- Co-Head Writer (with David Kreizman): March 15, 2010 – April 1, 2011
- Head writer: November 1988 - November 1992
The Bold and the Beautiful (hired by Bradley Bell)
- Script writer: September 24, 2009 - March 2010
- Associate head writer: 1999 - 2001, March 2004 - 2009
- Co-head writer: September 2003 - March 2004, 2005 - February 29, 2008, April 14, 2008 - August 21, 2008
- Screenwriter: 2001 - 2003W
HW History
Preceded by
Sheri AndersonDe facto head writer of Another World during Writers Guild of America strike
April 1988 - September 1988Succeeded by
Harding LemayPreceded by
Harding LemayHead writer of Another World
November 1988 - November 1992Succeeded by
Peggy SloanePreceded by
David KreizmanCo-Head writer of Guiding Light
with David Kreizman
2005 - 2008Succeeded by
(Series off-the-air)Preceded by
Lorraine Broderick (interim)Co-Head writer of All My Children
with David Kreizman
March, 2010 - April 1, 2011Succeeded by
Lorraine BroderickExternal links
Categories:- Women television writers
- American soap opera writers
- Living people
- American television writer stubs
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