Lisa Seidman

Lisa Seidman began her television career writing for the primetime serials Falcon Crest, Dallas, and Knots Landing, as well as Cagney & Lacy, Murder, She Wrote, and Scarecrow and Mrs. King. For five years, Lisa was the head writer on the phenomenally successful, award-winning Russian prime-time serial, Poor Anastasia, as well as Sins of the Fathers, Talisman of Love, and the Russian adaptation of Betty La Fea ( Ugly Betty in the U.S.). She received an Emmy nomination for her work on Guiding Light as well as Writers Guild nominations for Guiding Light and Sunset Beach. After a year writing for One Life to Live, she returned to Moscow as the head writer of One Night of Love, which was nominated for an International Emmy Award. Lisa spent two years as an elected member of the Writers Guild of America, West Board of Directors and wrote for the daytime serial Days of Our Lives for which she was awarded an Emmy. She is currently teaching TV writing at USC's School of Cinematic Arts and most recently wrote for Hollywood Heights, a teen soap for Nickelodeon.