Beyond The Gates Reveals Writers Behind The Stories

CBS’ new daytime series Beyond The Gates introduces its writers’ room. With show creator, head writer, Executive Producer, and showrunner Michele Val Jean and co-head writer and Executive Producer Bob Guza Jr. at the helm, the new soap’s writer’s room is comprised of a diverse team of soap and television scribes. These details come after the start of production and the BTG premiere date announcement. Soap fans will recognize many of the names on this list.

Co-Head Writers

Michele Val Jean
Creator/Head Writer/EP/Showrunner

Credits: Script Writer, Generations; Script Writer/Script Editor, Santa Barbara; Associate Head Writer/Script Editor/Script Writer/Breakdown Writer, General Hospital; Script Writer, The Bold and the Beautiful, Consulting Producer/Script Writer, Ambitions, Jake & The Fatman (2 scripts).

Bob Guza Jr. 
EP/Co-Head Writer 

Credits: Writer, Santa Barbara; Creator, Sunset Beach; Co-Head Writer, Loving; Head Writer, GH.

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Editor And Producer

Susan Dansby 
Script Editor 

Credits: Story Consultant, The Young and the Restless; Consulting Producer, Ambitions; Script Writer, Y&R; Script Writer, Breakdown Writer, Assoc. Head Writer, As the World Turns; Director, Port Charles; AP, Director, GH.

Michael Montgomery
Continuity Producer 

Credits: Script & Story Coordinator/ Breakdown Writer and Script Writer, Y&R.

Script Writers

Judy Tate 

Credits: Breakdown Writer/Script Writer, Another World, As the World Turns, Days of our Lives. Feature Short, Keepers of the Flame.

Danielle Paige

Credits: Script Writer, Guiding Light, DAYS; Novelist, Dorothy Must Die, Stealing Snow, The Ravens, The Monarchs, Holos.

Jazmen Darnell Brown 

Credits: Staff Writer, BMF, Ambitions, Saints and Sinners 

Cheryl L. Davis 

Credits: Scriptwriter, As the World Turns, DAYS; Staff Writer, Law & Order: SVU

Lynn Martin

Credits: Script Writer, The City, Port Charles, Another World, As the World Turns, Y&R.

Breakdown Writers

Ron Carlvati 

Credits: Script Writer/Head Writer, One Life to Live; Head Writer, GH; Head Writer, DAYS.

Sara A. Bibel 

Credits: Script Writer, Breakdown Writer, Assoc. Head Writer, Y&R.

Christopher Dunn 

Credits: Breakdown Writer, Santa Barbara, GH, Sunset Beach, Guiding Light, All My Children, DAYS, Y&R; Script Writer, Guiding Light, DAYS.

Gregori J. Martin 

Credits: Creator/Head Writer, The Bay; Screenplay Adaptation, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.

Teresa Zimmerman

Credits: Breakdown Writer, Y&R; Scriptwriter, Y&R; Associate Head Writer, B&B.

BTG Update

The series began production in Atlanta, Georgia., this month. The new soap stars Tamara Tunie, Clifton Davis, Daphnee Duplaix, Karla Mosley, Alex Alegria, Lauren Buglioli, Brandon Claybon, Timon Kyle Durrett, Sean Freeman, Ben Gavin, Marquita Goings, Jibre Hordges, Jen Jacob, Maurice Johnson, Trisha Mann-Grant, Mike Manning, RhonniRose Mantilla, Ambyr Michelle, Colby Muhammad and Arielle Prepetit.