Leslie Nipkow

Leslie Nipkow is an American essayist, television writer, playwright, and actress.

Positions held

Guarding Erica

• performer/playwright (published in Vintage Books anthology: Talk to Me: Monologue Plays)

As the World Turns (hired by Jean Passanante)

• Script Writer: September 4, 2007 - January 24, 2008; April 18, 2008 - July 31, 2008; November 13, 2008 - January 7, 2009; July 24, 2009 - September 17, 2010, end of series

One Life to Live (hired by Gary Tomlin)

• Script Writer: 2000 - September 19, 2005
• Occasional Script Writer: September 20, 2005 - August 17, 2007
• Script Editor: September 20, 2005 - October 3, 2007

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Award

• Winner, 2008, Best Writing, One Life to Live
• Nomination, 2011, Best Writing, As the World Turns
• Nomination, 2010, Best Writing, As the World Turns
• Nomination, 2006, Best Writing, One Life to Live
• Nomination, 2002, Best Writing, One Life to Live

Writers Guild of America Award

• Winner, 2011, Best Writing, As the World Turns
• Winner, 2009, Best Writing, As the World Turns
• Nomination, 2010, Best Writing, As the World Turns
• Nomination, 2005, Best Writing, One Life to Live
• Nomination, 2003, Best Writing, One Life to Live

External links

• "How to Kiss Like a Movie Star"
• "Reading Lolita in Hell's Kitchen" from Connotation Press
• "This is Why I'm Fat" from Salon.com
• "Summer Book Festivals" from O: the Oprah Magazine
• "Looking Up" on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood
• "Mantooth" on FreshYarn.com
• "A Long Day's Journey into Lip Gloss" at New York Times
• "If Breast Cancer Knocked You Down, Could You get Back Up? from Prevention
• "Best Places to Learn to Sew in NYC" on Citypath.com
• "New York's Coolest Kids Craft Classes" on Citypath.com
• Leslie Nipkow's Blog: Yogini Bikini
• "Egghead's Delight" in WGAE Awards Journal 2010, page 13
• "Misreading the Signs" in the New York Post
• "Friend is a Verb" on Ducts.org
• Leslie Nipkow on IMDb
• CenCom
• FilmThreat
• NYTimes