Megan McTavish was born on April 2,1949, Elgin, Illinois and is American television actress and soap opera writer.
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14 Facts About Megan McTavish
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Megan McTavish played Penelope in the National Radio Theater's Peabody Award-winning radio dramatization of Homer's Odyssey.
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On television, Megan McTavish broke into the soap opera industry as an actress; she played Lola Fontaine on Guiding Light from 1983 to 1984.
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Megan McTavish began her writing career as a staff writer on the Procter and Gamble Productions' Texas.
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Megan McTavish worked as a staff writer for the company's Guiding Light.
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Megan McTavish was at Guiding Light from 1995 to 1996, at One Life to Live from 1999 to 2001, and at General Hospital from 2001 to 2002.
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Megan McTavish was mentored by All My Children creator Agnes Nixon and her 1992 ascension to head writer was reported in the press as a change of the guard.
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Megan McTavish wrote for AMC until 1995, and returned for two additional stints, from 1997 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2007.
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Megan McTavish updated some of the existing characters and introduced new ones.
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Megan McTavish wrote several sweeping umbrella stories over the years, most notably a story where Pine Valley is hit by a tornado.
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Megan McTavish created several popular characters, including Ryan Lavery during her second stint in 1998 and Kendall Hart in 1993, who were still cornerstones of the show until its series end.
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Megan McTavish was criticized for various plot-driven stories during her tenures at All My Children.
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Megan McTavish was criticized for rewriting history, such as the reversal of the landmark story where central character Erica Kane undergoes daytime's first abortion; McTavish rewrote the story to reveal that rather than having had an abortion, Erica's fetus was stolen and implanted into another woman's uterus, resulting with character Josh Madden.
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Megan McTavish rewrote history and the timeline of Erica's past to introduce character Kendall in the early 1990s, though this proved to be a popular story.
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