Kay Alden is the award-winning television scriptwriter, and former head and co-head writer for the most-watched American soap opera The Young And The Restless. She left CBS's The Young and the Restless in late 2006. In late 2006 Alden was hired to consult on two ABC Daytime dramas, All My Children and One Life To Live. She left ABC Daytime after declining to be All My Children's Head Writer in April 2007, and was hired by Bradley Bell to be an Associate Head Writer for another CBS Daytime drama, The Bold And The Beautiful. This list is poorly defined, permanently incomplete, or has become unverifiable or an indiscriminate list or repository of loosely associated topics. ... A head writer is a person who is in charge of a television/radio series writing team. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... For other uses, see Young and Restless. ... ABC Daytime (ABCD) is a programming block on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). ... All My Children (AMC) is a popular American soap opera that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970. ... One Life to Live (OLTL) is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the ABC television network since July 15, 1968. ... A head writer is a person who is in charge of a television/radio series writing team. ... Bradley Bell has been the head writer and executive producer of the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful since 1994 and 1996 respectively. ... CBS (formerly an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... The Bold and the Beautiful (often called Bold or annotated to B&B) is an American television soap opera, created by Lee Phillip Bell and William J. Bell. ...

Alden started writing for The Young And The Restless as an Breakdown Writer in 1974, was promoted to an Associate Head Writer, thrn as Co-Head Writer in 1997, and took over as head writer the following year when series co-creator William J. Bell stepped down from the position. With Alden as head writer, the show lost about 2 million viewers (most of the loss occured in 2004) but it should be noted that all soap operas during this period experienced the same scale of audience erosion. William J. Bell (a. ...

There is a scholarship in Alden's name from Emporia State University, in Emporia, Kansas. Emporia State University (ESU) is a comprehensive Regents university serving residents of Eastern Kansas. ... Emporia is a city located in Lyon County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 26,760. ...

Awards and nominations

Alden has been nominated for, and has won, more than a dozen Daytime Emmy Awards since the late 1970s, and also Writers Guild Of America Awards. She quit The Young And The Restless in late 2006 to due creative differences with Lynn Marie Latham and Scott Hamner. 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. ... Annual awards given out by the Writers Guild of America for outstanding achievements in film, TV, or radio writing. ... Lynn Marie Latham is an American TV writer. ... Scott Hamner, son of Earl Hamner, is an American TV writer. ...

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External links

• Kay Alden at IMDB