Jill Farren-Phelps (born July 7, 1950) is an American television producer.
Phelps was born in New York, New York and earned a BFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She became a stage manager at McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey before becoming a production assistant for various New York stage productions, working with notable directors Mike Nichols and Bob Fosse. She started her television career in...
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Jill Farren-Phelps (born July 7, 1950) is an American television producer.
Phelps was born in New York, New York and earned a BFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She became a stage manager at McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey before becoming a production assistant for various New York stage productions, working with notable directors Mike Nichols and Bob Fosse. She started her television career in 1974 with Guiding Light as a production assistant. From 1977 to 1984 Phelps served as an Emmy Award-winning music director on the ABC Daytime drama General Hospital. In 1984 she joined Santa Barbara where she ultimately rose to the position of executive producer. She has since worked as an executive producer at all three major U.S. television networks producing daytime dramas for a total of five programs, as well as one prime time spin-off drama airing on cable television.
Phelps has been the executive producer of many American television...
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