Days of Our Lives producers and writers explained

This is a list of executive producers and head writers for the soap opera Days of Our Lives.

Executive Producers

Duration	Name
November 8, 1965 – August 2, 1966 ^[1]	Ted Corday
August 3, 1966 – April 19, 1977	Betty Corday
April 20, 1977 – January 18, 1980	Betty Corday and H. Wesley Kenney
January 21, 1980 – May 9, 1986	Betty Corday and Al Rabin
May 12, 1986 – December 31, 1987	Betty Corday, Ken Corday and Al Rabin
January 4, 1988 – March 6, 1989	Ken Corday and Al Rabin
March 7 – December 1989	Ken Corday and Shelley Curtis
December 1989 – April 20, 1992	Ken Corday and Al Rabin
April 21, 1992 – March 28, 2002	Ken Corday and Tom Langan
March 29, 2002 – August 29, 2007	Ken Corday and Stephen Wyman
August 30, 2007 – September 16, 2008	Ken Corday and Edward J. Scott
September 17, 2008 – September 2, 2011	Ken Corday and Gary Tomlin
September 6, 2011 – January 27, 2012	Ken Corday, Noel Maxam and Greg Meng
January 30, 2012 – July 31, 2015	Ken Corday, Lisa de Cazotte and Greg Meng
August 3, 2015 – September 7, 2020	Ken Corday, Albert Alarr and Greg Meng
September 8, 2020 – January 26, 2024	Ken Corday and Albert Alarr
January 29, 2024 – present	Ken Corday and Janet Spellman-Drucker

Head writers

Duration	Name
November 8 – December 31, 1965 ^[2]	Peggy Phillips and Kenneth Rosen
January 3 – July 4, 1966	Peggy Phillips
July 5, 1966 – May 6, 1975	William J. Bell
May 7, 1975 – April 19, 1977	Pat Falken Smith
April 20, 1977 – February 26, 1979	Ann Marcus
February 27, 1979 – March 14, 1980	Elizabeth Harrower
March 17 – April 18, 1980	Ruth Brooks Flippen
April 21 – October 9, 1980	Nina Laemmle
October 10 – 17, 1980
October 20, 1980 – October 20, 1981	Gary Tomlin and Michelle Poteet Lisanti
October 21, 1981 – April 16, 1982	Pat Falken Smith
April 19, 1982 – September 21, 1984	Margaret DePriest and Sheri Anderson
September 24 – October 25, 1984	Margaret DePriest, Sheri Anderson, and Thom Racina
October 26 – November 30, 1984	Sheri Anderson and Thom Racina
December 3, 1984 – November 10, 1986	Sheri Anderson, Thom Racina, Leah Laiman
November 11 – 18, 1986	Thom Racina and Leah Laiman
November 19, 1986 – March 16, 1989	Leah Laiman
March 17, 1989 – January 19, 1990
January 22, 1990 – June 18, 1991
June 19, 1991 – January 30, 1992
January 31 – June 12, 1992
June 12 – July 9, 1992	Sheri Anderson
July 10 – August 6, 1992	Sheri Anderson and Gene Palumbo
August 7 – December 18, 1992	Sheri Anderson
December 21, 1992 – April 28, 1993
April 29, 1993 – November 20, 1997	James E. Reilly
November 21, 1997 – January 5, 1998
January 8, 1998 – October 14, 1999	Sally Sussman Morina
October 15 – November 10, 1999	Lorraine Broderick
November 11, 1999 – March 28, 2002	Tom Langan
March 29, 2002 – March 6, 2003	Peter Brash and Paula Cwikly
March 7 – August 8, 2003	Dena Higley
August 11 – 15, 2003	Dena Higley and James E. Reilly
August 18, 2003 – August 9, 2006	James E. Reilly
August 10 – October 4, 2006	Beth Milstein
October 5, 2006 – January 24, 2008	Hogan Sheffer and Meg Kelly
January 25 – April 22, 2008	None listed
April 23 – June 30, 2008	Dena Higley and Victor Gialanella
July 1 – October 10, 2008	Dena Higley and Rick Draughon
October 13, 2008 – June 13, 2011	Dena Higley and Christopher Whitesell
June 14 – August 25, 2011	Dena Higley
August 26, 2011 – August 16, 2012	Marlene Clark Poulter and Darrell Ray Thomas Jr.
August 17, 2012 – August 18, 2015	Gary Tomlin and Christopher Whitesell
August 19, 2015 – February 19, 2016	Josh Griffith and Dena Higley
February 22 – September 2, 2016	Josh Griffith, Dena Higley and Beth Milstein
September 6, 2016 – July 18, 2017	Dena Higley and Ryan Quan
July 19, 2017 – December 1, 2023^[3]	Ron Carlivati
December 4, 2023 – May 30, 2024	WGA strike
May 31, 2024 – April 2025	Ron Carlivati
May 2025 – TBA	Paula Cwikly and Jeanne Marie Ford

Notes

Exact switchover dates from 1989–98 are unknown due to many episodes airing without credits during those years. The start dates for all writers from 1989–98 are for the first episode credited to them on screen. The 27 "uncredited episodes" (which are credited as the previous writer's end date in all cases) are March 13–14, 1989, January 18–19, 1990, June 14–18, 1991, January 30, 1992, June 9–11, 1992; July 9, 1992; December 16–18, 1992; April 26–28, 1993, November 20, 1997. and December 23, 1997 – January 5, 1998.
March 13–14, 1989. means Leah Laiman was last credited on screen on March 10, 1989; no credits were run from March 13–14, 1989. Anne Howard Bailey was first credited on March 15, 1989; Laiman gets the "uncredited episodes" added to her official count and her end date is listed as March 12, 1989, but Bailey may have actually written one or both of those two "uncredited" episodes).
In August of 2023, Albert Alarr was fired from the show for misconduct. He remained credited until all the episodes he was involved in with production had aired.

Notes and References

Web site: "Days of Our Lives" Staff Database. 29 May 2015.
Web site: Writers - Days of Our Lives. 29 May 2015.
News: SOD. Ron Carlivati Announces First DAYS Airdate. June 21, 2017. Soap Opera Digest. Odyssey Magazine Publishing Group Inc.. American Media, Inc.. June 21, 2017. United States.