Amanda L. Beall is an American soap opera writer. The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television...

Positions Held

All My Children All My Children is an American soap opera that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970. ...

• Associate Head Writer (July 11, 2006 - Present)
• Script Writer (December 4, 2003 - Present)
• Occasional Associate Head Writer (2004 & 2005)

General Hospital General Hospital is the longest-running daytime American soap opera on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network, and is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West and Sunset-Gower Studios). ...

• Occasional Script Writer (2000, 2002 & 2003)
• Story Coordinator (1998-2000)
• Writers' Assistant (1997-1998)

Port Charles Port Charles was a soap opera which aired on ABC from June 1, 1997 to October 3, 2003. ...

• Script Writer (2000-2001)

Awards & Nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York- based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. ...

NOMINATIONS

• (2004; Best Writing; AMC)

Writers Guild of America Award (WGA) Annual awards given out by the Writers Guild of America for outstanding achievements in film, TV, or radio writing. ...

NOMINATIONS

• (2006; Best Writing; AMC) (Nominated for the Sept. 11, 2006 episode)