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IN MEMORIAM

Having written for television since 1968, Harding "Pete" Lemay was former head writer for the NBC daytime serial Another World, served as story consultant for the ABC daytime serial One Life To Live, and was the creator and head writer of the serial Lovers and Friends. Plays written for the stage include Look At Any Man, The Little Birds Fly, The Joslyn Circle, Return Upriver, From A Dark Land, The Death of Eagles, How He Became A Writer, The Off Season (all originally produced at New Dramatists), and Escape Route. From A Dark Land received its European premiere at the National Theatre of Romania -- Craiova, in a co-production with Stageplays Theatre Company. His later plays include Interior Landscape, A Far Far Better World, and In the Eye of Heaven. His later plays Scrutiny, The First Born, The Heir Apparent, and The Oakland Sisters all were developed and first presented by Stageplays. A two-time Emmy Award-winner (Best Writing -- Another World and The Guiding Light), Pete also wrote the original television dramas They and Whose Life? (both produced on NBC). He was the author of Inside Looking Out (Harper's Magazine Press; National Book Award Nomination -- Biography), and Eight Years In Another World (Atheneum), each a non-fiction work chronicaling his work as a writer. Near the end of his life, Pete Lemay conducted classes in drama and fiction at the New School's Institute for Retired Professional. Pete Lemay served on the Board of Advisors of Stageplays from 2007 until he passed away in 2018.