Christopher Goutman is an American soap opera producer and director. 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
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Director (1987-1996)
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Executive Producer (July 1999 - present)
Ocassional Director (1999 - Present)
Director (1996-1998)
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Director (1982-1983)
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. ...
NOMINATION (2002, 2004-2006; Best Drama Series; As the World Turns)
WIN (2001, 2003; Best Drama Series; As the World Turns)
WIN (1995; Best Directing; All My Children)
NOMINATION (1990-1994; Best Directing; All My Children)
Goutman was later called in to serve as Executive Producer for NBC's Another World during the final months of the show's run.
Goutman and ATWT head writer Hogan Sheffer are widely praised as the force that turned around the sagging CBS soap and led it to a record-setting run at this year's Emmys.
Since Goutman has already helped to turn around As The World Turns, some are speculating that he might be up to the challenge of restoring ratings-impaired AMC to its former brilliance.
ChristopherGoutman was named Executive Producer of As the World Turns on June 7, 1999.
Goutman began his career as an actor, and was a director in daytime television for seventeen years, several of them with As the World Turns, where his work received a Directors Guild of America nomination, and Another World.
Goutman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College and a Masters of Fine Arts in directing from Carnegie-Mellon University.
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