Richard Culliton is an American television writer known for his work on soap operas. He has won four Writers Guild of America Awards, including one as a Head Writer, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University. His wife, Carolyn Culliton, is also a veteran writer for soap operas.
Culliton began his television career in the early 1980s writing for NBC Daytime's Texas, and then serving as Co-Head Writer for CBS Daytime'...
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Richard Culliton is an American television writer known for his work on soap operas. He has won four Writers Guild of America Awards, including one as a Head Writer, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University. His wife, Carolyn Culliton, is also a veteran writer for soap operas.
Culliton began his television career in the early 1980s writing for NBC Daytime's Texas, and then serving as Co-Head Writer for CBS Daytime's Guiding Light from 1983 - 1984.
After this, he served as Head Writer of Another World from 1984 - 1985. The characters of Marley Hudson and Wallingford were created during his tenure. He wrote for Search for Tomorrow under Addie Walsh in 1986. In the late 1980s, Culliton returned to the writing staff of Guiding Light. He was part of the team that won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1990.
Culliton then joined the writing staff of Santa Barbara; he was a script writer and story editor when the writing team won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991. After this,...
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