Barbara Garshman

Who is Barbara Garshman?

Barbara Garshman is an American television producer, writer and executive. She holds a MA in Theater Arts- TV from UCLA. She is a former NBC Director of Prime Time Development-East Coast where she helped develop the mini-series as a new dramatic form, presenting over 100 hours of on-air programming, as well as made for television movies, sitcoms and dramatic series. She received five Daytime Emmy Award nominations as Supervising Producer of CBS Daytime's Guiding Light. After leaving GL in 1993, she devoted her time to writing for Days of our Lives, Another World, and a primetime dramatic pilot, Connections. She worked for ABC Daytime as a consultant where she developed writers for their existing serials and conceived new dramatic forms for daytime television.

Garshman currently runs a successful consulting business. She is a member of The Times Square Group which is dedicated to empowering teens and pre-teens by involving them in the creation of theater, TV, film and music.