Megan McTavish
| Megan McTavish | |
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April 2, 1949 Elgin, Illinois, U.S. |
Megan McTavish (born April 2, 1949 in Elgin, Illinois) is a retired American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.
Before becoming a writer, McTavish was a Chicago-based stage actress. She played Penelope in the National Radio Theater's Peabody Award-winning radio dramatization of Homer's Odyssey (1980). On television, McTavish broke into the soap opera industry as an actress; she played Lola Fontaine on Guiding Light from 1983 to 1984.
McTavish began her writing career as a staff writer on the Procter and Gamble Productions' Texas. (The show was notable for allowing actors to contribute as writers; its final head writer, Pam Long, had been portraying the front-burner role of Ashley). She also worked as a staff writer for the company's Guiding Light.
McTavish was head writer of several shows. She was at Guiding Light from 1995 to 1996, at One Life to Live from 1999 to 2001, and at General Hospital from 2001 to 2002.
However, she is best known for three separate stints at All My Children. McTavish was mentored by All My Children creator Agnes Nixon and her 1992 ascension to head writer was reported in the press as a change of the guard. McTavish wrote for AMC until 1995, and returned for two additional stints, from 1997 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2007.
McTavish's first stint on All My Children was her most critically and commercially successful. McTavish updated some of the existing characters and introduced new ones. She wrote several sweeping umbrella stories over the years, most notably a story where Pine Valley is hit by a tornado, and a baby-swap story involving two of the show's young , Bianca Montgomery and Babe Carey. In addition, she created several popular characters, including Ryan Lavery and Kendall Hart, who were still cornerstones of the show until its series end.
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