Days of Our Lives producers and writers

Producers and writers of a soap opera

This is a list of executive producers and head writers for the soap opera Days of Our Lives.

## Executive Producers

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Duration | Name

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November 8, 1965 – August 2, 1966 [1] | Ted Corday
August 3, 1966 – April 19, 1977 | Betty Corday
April 20, 1977 – January 18, 1980 | Betty Corday and H. Wesley Kenney
January 21, 1980 – May 9, 1986 | Betty Corday and Al Rabin
May 12, 1986 – December 31, 1987 | Betty Corday, Ken Corday and Al Rabin
January 4, 1988 – March 6, 1989 | Ken Corday and Al Rabin
March 7 – December 1989 | Ken Corday and Shelley Curtis
December 1989 – April 20, 1992 | Ken Corday and Al Rabin
April 21, 1992 – March 28, 2002 | Ken Corday and Tom Langan
March 29, 2002 – August 29, 2007 | Ken Corday and Stephen Wyman
August 30, 2007 – September 16, 2008 | Ken Corday and Edward J. Scott
September 17, 2008 – September 2, 2011 | Ken Corday and Gary Tomlin
September 6, 2011 – January 27, 2012 | Ken Corday, Noel Maxam and Greg Meng
January 30, 2012 – July 31, 2015 | Ken Corday, Lisa de Cazotte and Greg Meng
August 3, 2015 – September 7, 2020 | Ken Corday, Albert Alarr and Greg Meng
September 8, 2020 – January 26, 2024 | Ken Corday and Albert Alarr 3
January 29, 2024 – present | Ken Corday and Janet Spellman-Drucker 4

## Head writers

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Duration | Name

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November 8 – December 31, 1965 [2] | Peggy Phillips and Kenneth Rosen
January 3 – July 4, 1966 | Peggy Phillips
July 5, 1966 – May 6, 1975 | William J. Bell
May 7, 1975 – April 19, 1977 | Pat Falken Smith
April 20, 1977 – February 26, 1979 | Ann Marcus
February 27, 1979 – March 14, 1980 | Elizabeth Harrower
March 17 – April 18, 1980 | Ruth Brooks Flippen
April 21 – October 9, 1980 | Nina Laemmle
October 10 – 17, 1980 | Michelle Poteet Lisanti
October 20, 1980 – October 20, 1981 | Gary Tomlin and Michelle Poteet Lisanti
October 21, 1981 – April 16, 1982 | Pat Falken Smith
April 19, 1982 – September 21, 1984 | Margaret DePriest and Sheri Anderson
September 24 – October 25, 1984 | Margaret DePriest, Sheri Anderson, and Thom Racina
October 26 – November 30, 1984 | Sheri Anderson and Thom Racina
December 3, 1984 – November 10, 1986 | Sheri Anderson, Thom Racina, Leah Laiman
November 11 – 18, 1986 | Thom Racina and Leah Laiman
November 19, 1986 – March 16, 1989 | Leah Laiman 1 2
March 17, 1989 – January 19, 1990 | Anne Howard Bailey 1 2
January 22, 1990 – June 18, 1991 | Richard J. Allen and Anne Schoettle 1
June 19, 1991 – January 30, 1992 | Gene Palumbo 1
January 31 – June 12, 1992 | Richard J. Allen and Beth Milstein 1
June 12 – July 9, 1992 | Sheri Anderson 1
July 10 – August 6, 1992 | Sheri Anderson and Gene Palumbo 1
August 7 – December 18, 1992 | Sheri Anderson 1
December 21, 1992 – April 28, 1993 | Sheri Anderson and James E. Reilly 1
April 29, 1993 – November 20, 1997 | James E. Reilly 1
November 21, 1997 – January 5, 1998 | James E. Reilly and Sally Sussman Morina 1
January 8, 1998 – October 14, 1999 | Sally Sussman Morina
October 15 – November 10, 1999 | Lorraine Broderick
November 11, 1999 – March 28, 2002 | Tom Langan
March 29, 2002 – March 6, 2003 | Peter Brash and Paula Cwikly
March 7 – August 8, 2003 | Dena Higley
August 11 – 15, 2003 | Dena Higley and James E. Reilly
August 18, 2003 – August 9, 2006 | James E. Reilly
August 10 – October 4, 2006 | Beth Milstein
October 5, 2006 – January 24, 2008 | Hogan Sheffer and Meg Kelly
January 25 – April 22, 2008 | None listed
April 23 – June 30, 2008 | Dena Higley and Victor Gialanella
July 1 – October 10, 2008 | Dena Higley and Rick Draughon
October 13, 2008 – June 13, 2011 | Dena Higley and Christopher Whitesell
June 14 – August 25, 2011 | Dena Higley
August 26, 2011 – August 16, 2012 | Marlene Clark Poulter and Darrell Ray Thomas Jr.
August 17, 2012 – August 18, 2015 | Gary Tomlin and Christopher Whitesell
August 19, 2015 – February 19, 2016 | Josh Griffith and Dena Higley
February 22 – September 2, 2016 | Josh Griffith, Dena Higley and Beth Milstein
September 6, 2016 – July 18, 2017 | Dena Higley and Ryan Quan
July 19, 2017 – December 1, 2023[3] | Ron Carlivati
December 4, 2023 – May 30, 2024 | WGA strike
May 31, 2024 – April 23, 2025 | Ron Carlivati
April 24, 2025 – present | Paula Cwikly and Jeanne Marie Ford

### Notes

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1. ^ Exact switchover dates from 1989–98 are unknown due to many episodes airing without credits during those years. The start dates for all writers from 1989–98 are for the first episode credited to them on screen. The 27 "uncredited episodes" (which are credited as the previous writer's end date in all cases) are March 13–14, 1989, January 18–19, 1990, June 14–18, 1991, January 30, 1992, June 9–11, 1992; July 9, 1992; December 16–18, 1992; April 26–28, 1993, November 20, 1997. and December 23, 1997 – January 5, 1998.
2. ^ March 13–14, 1989. means Leah Laiman was last credited on screen on March 10, 1989; no credits were run from March 13–14, 1989. Anne Howard Bailey was first credited on March 15, 1989; Laiman gets the "uncredited episodes" added to her official count and her end date is listed as March 12, 1989, but Bailey may have actually written one or both of those two "uncredited" episodes).
3. ^ In August 2023, Albert Alarr was fired from the show for misconduct. He remained credited until all the episodes he was involved in with production had aired.
4. ^ In May 2025, Janet Druker-Spellman retired from the show. Noel Maxam had stepped in to replace her, whose episodes won't air until early 2026. [4]

## References

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1. ^ ""Days of Our Lives" Staff Database". Retrieved 29 May 2015.
2. ^ "Writers - Days of Our Lives". Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
3. ^ SOD (June 21, 2017). "Ron Carlivati Announces First DAYS Airdate". Soap Opera Digest. United States: American Media, Inc. Odyssey Magazine Publishing Group Inc. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
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