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‘Beyond The Gates’: Meet Michele Val Jean, the Writer Who Created Daytime’s First Ever Black Soap Opera
When Sheila Ducksworth was named president of CBS’ new production partnership with the NAACP back in 2020, one of her first calls was to Michele Val Jean — a longtime writer on such soaps as The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, and Generations, the first daytime drama to feature a Black family. Duckworth’s dream […]
When Sheila Ducksworth was named president of CBS’ new production partnership with the NAACP back in 2020, one of her first calls was to Michele Val Jean — a longtime writer on such soaps as The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, and Generations, the first daytime drama to feature a Black family. Val Jean is the creator, showrunner and executive producer; other EPs are Ducksworth, Robert Guza Jr., Julie Carruthers, Leon W. Russell, Derrick Johnson, Kimberly Doebereiner and Anna Saalfeld. Pictured (L-R): Eric Kim, Anna Saalfeld, Kimberly Doebereiner, Amy Reisenbach, Sheila Ducksworth, Karla Mosley, Clifton Davis, Tamara Tunie, Daphnee Duplaix, Michele Val Jean, Julie Carruthers, David Stapf, Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, Leon W. Russell, and Derrick Johnson.
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