Marguerite "Meg" Kelly Rizzoli is an American television
soap opera screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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who has received three
Daytime Emmy Awards.
Biography
Kelly was born as one of four children to journalists Thomas and Marguerite Kelly. Her brother was
Michael Kelly, a magazine editor and journalist who was killed in 2003 while covering the
Iraq War, and one of her sisters is Katie Kelly, a journalist and children's book writer.
A former actress, she joined
Arena Stage at the age of about twelve or thirteen, touring Russia with them. In 1978 she began studying at the
Catholic University of America
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before dropping out to attend the
Circle in the Square Theatre School
Circle in the Square Theatre School is a non-profit, tax exempt drama school associated with Circle in the Square Theatre; it is the only accredited conservatory attached to a Broadway theatre.
It offers two 2-year full-time programs: a Profes ...
in New York City from 1980 to 1982. In New York she landed a
Broadway role from 1988 to 1989 in a run of the play ''
The Devil's Disciple''. She moved to Los Angeles with her husband, actor Tony Rizzoli. She began writing screenplays and was a finalist for the
Nicholl Fellowship, turning to screenwriting for daytime TV shows because she could easily integrate that job with raising her children.
Positions held
''
As the World Turns''
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Script Writer: 2000 - April 6, 2005
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Days of Our Lives
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Co-Head Writer (with
Hogan Sheffer): October 5, 2006 - January 24, 2008
*Script Writer: September 6, 2006 - January 24, 2008
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One Life to Live
''One Life to Live'' (often abbreviated as ''OLTL'') is an American soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes ...
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*Breakdown Writer: July 12, 2005 - Nov 21, 2006
Awards and nominations
''
Daytime Emmy Award''
*Win, 2002, 2004 and 2005, Best Writing, ''As the World Turns''
*Nomination, 2003, Best Writing, ''As the World Turns''
References
External links
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American soap opera writers
Daytime Emmy Award winners
American women television writers
Women soap opera writers
American stage actresses
Catholic University of America alumni
Circle in the Square Theatre School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)