My Redroom URL

• http://www.redroom.com/member/lynnliccardo

About Me

• After graduating from Harvard University in 1983 with an undergraduate degree in humanities, I began writing about nursing. My articles appeared in The Boston Globe, Revolution: The Journal for Nurse Empowerment, and Soap Opera Weekly, where I published a piece on how nurses are portrayed on soap operas and then shifted my focus to writing about soaps.

  In the early 1990s, I wrote several articles for SOW, including, "Who Really Watches Soap Operas," a 1996 demographic analysis that has been cited in numerous scholarly articles. From 2005-2007, I advised a Master's thesis project on soap opera in the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program at MIT. My critical observations on soap opera appear on several soap boards and media blogs, including three recent pieces on the CMS Convergence Cultural Consortium (C3) blog, and CMS founder Henry Jenkins's blog. My essay, "The Ironic and Convoluted Relationship between Daytime and Primetime Soaps" will be published next June in The Survival of the Soap Opera: Strategies for a New Media Era  (forthcoming, University Press of Misissippi).  And earlier this year, my Red Room blog was named one of the "Ten Best Blogs for Soap Opera Fans."

  My second writing front is short plays and screenplays. Last March (2008), my 10-minute play, 50 and Counting, was performed at the Boston Playwrights Theatre as part of the second annual SWANDay celebrations. In 2007, my one-act play, Settling In, was broadcast on Somerville Community Access Television. Other short plays have been performed in greater Boston, New York and Los Angeles. I've also completed a screenplay, Never Can Say Goodbye, and the treatment for a second, The Good Father.

  I hadn't intended to write about politics. But since I am, full disclosure: For the past fourteen years I have worked as a political fundraiser as The Share Group in Massachusetts. Among Share's clients, past and present:  DNC; DCCC; DSCC;  numerous Democratic presidential and senate candidates;  NARAL Pro-Choice America;  Planned Parenthood; EMILY's List; NOW; The Feminist Majority. I'm a registered Independent; unless there's a strategic reason to do otherwise, I vote in the Democratic primary.

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