Michael Conforti

Michael Conforti is an American television writer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He played Jeremy Rhodes on Edge of Night, and Wally Bacon on Guiding Light. Conforti later became a writer for the soap opera Guiding Light. He became a Co-Head Writer for All My Children and Guiding Light. During the WGA strike, he chose financial core status with the Writers Guild of America and continued working.

He is the father of 3: Olivia, Marissa, and Matt.

Positions held

All My Children (hired by Angela Shapiro)

• Co-Head Writer: May 2001 - June 2001

General Hospital (hired by Megan McTavish)

• Breakdown Writer (July 2001 - January 3, 2008; March 17, 2008 - October 8, 2008; March 5, 2009 – April 30, 2012)
• Script Writer (March 24, 2008 - February 26, 2009)
• Writer (January 29, 2008 - March 14, 2008)

General Hospital: Night Shift

• Script Writer: July 12, 2007 - October 4, 2007

Guiding Light

• Breakdown Writer: 1994 - October 1996, April 1997 - 1998
• Co-Head Writer: October 1996 - April 1997
• Script Writer: 1990 - 1994
• Actor: Wally Bacon

The Young and the Restless (hired by Josh Griffith)

• Script Writer: December 13, 2012 – Present

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards

WINS

• (1993; Best Writing; Guiding Light)
• (2003 & 2009; Best Writing; General Hospital)

NOMINATIONS

• (1992 & 1999; Best Writing; Guiding Light)
• (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 & 2012; Best Writing; General Hospital)

Writers Guild of America Award

WINS

• (1992 season; Guiding Light)

NOMINATIONS

• (1995, 1996, 1998 & 1999 seasons; Guiding Light)
• (2008 season; General Hospital)

External links

• Michael Conforti at the Internet Movie Database
• Official ABC-TV: GH
• SoapCentral: ABC Daytime appoints second head writer