Garren Waldo is a Contributing Writer at Soap Hub. Based in Tennessee, this Southern Fried Spitfire, and authority on all things soapy, whiles away his time critiquing, recapping, and spoiling. He’s sure that within him exists the next Great American Novel, a sensational stage play, and a noteworthy serial or two.
Title: Contributing Writer, Daytime TV Columnist Location: Spring City, Tennessee
Expertise
Topics of Expertise: Critical Analysis, Critical Reading, Soap History, Turning A Phrase Years in This Expertise: 25+ Shows You Write About: The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless. Bygone soap operas (Edge of Night, Guiding Light, Ryan’s Hope, et al.), Foreign serials.
Education & Certifications
Education: Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Tennessee Wesleyan College Years of Writing:Professionally: 3+, For Pleasure: 25+
A Word from Garren Waldo
Why Author Chose This Career: I’ve been enamored of the soap opera genre for as long as I can remember, and my most fervent desire is to one day have my name mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Irna Phillips, Henry Slesar, Pat Falken Smith, and Douglas Marland, or, barring what may be the impossible, at the very least alongside soap journalist greats such as John Kelly Genovese, P.K. Waddle, Mimi Torchin, and Marlena De Lacroix. How Author Began Career: An editor with a masochistic streak and the patience of a saint saw fit to take pity on me, an untried but promising scribe with extensive knowledge of soap operas and storylines past and the ability to entertain via the written word. Personal Interests: Dissecting film and television; plugging the myriad of gaps in my knowledge; reading; penning the next Great American Novel, a play that would make Tennessee Williams weep, and an original TV serial worthy of note. Small goals, really.
Nicholas Newman is worried about everyone, especially his mother who has fallen off the wagon on The Young and the Restless, but his portrayer, Joshua…
Former General Hospital star Kelly Sullivan, who played Kate/Connie, hasn’t been seen on a daytime soap since Sage Warner, the character she played on The…
On General Hospital, she kicked off the romance between Spencer Cassadine and Trina Robinson but in the real world, actress Sydney Mikayla has moved on…
Marcus Taggert has been worried about Trina on General Hospital, unfortunately for the most part that has been offscreen, but Réal Andrews, the actor who…
John Wesley Shipp played not one but multiple memorable daytime soap characters, and not one, not two, but three versions of the same crime-fighting superhero…
Tracy Quartermaine is back in charge on General Hospital and causing quite a stir! Unlike Tracy, her portrayer, actress Jane Elliot tends to avoid trouble,…
