TV Writer & Executive Producer

Twenty-five years
of stories that stick.

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Selected credits
Guiding Light
Writer
Worked up from production coordinator and writers' assistant to staff writer, crafting outlines and scripts for one of daytime's longest-running dramas. Part of the writing team that earned three Emmy nominations, including one win, and a Writers Guild of America Award for Daytime Serials. See clips →
The Young and the Restless
Writer
Wrote scripts and outlines under headwriter Lynn Marie Latham for CBS's perennial #1 soap, featuring characters including Victor and Nikki Newman, Katherine Chancellor, Jack Abbott, Phyllis Summers, and Gloria Bardwell. See clips →
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Executive Producer
Led the story department and post-production for one of the Housewife franchises' most-watched seasons, shaping narratives that generated some of the most memorable watercooler moments. See clips →
In Development
Current Projects
Currently developing new work across scripted and emerging formats, and completing a second novel.
Soaps
Scripted
Soaps
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Reality Television
Unscripted
Reality TV
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About
Brett Staneart

My Story Arc

Emmy Award, Daytime Drama Series
Emmy Nominated, ×3
WGA Award, Daytime Serials
25+ years in television
Based in Los Angeles

I started as a production coordinator on Guiding Light and spent the next two decades learning what keeps audiences coming back. The answer is always the same: characters they can't stop thinking about.

I've written for Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless, executive produced The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and spent years in the Bravo universe across multiple seasons of The Real Housewives of Orange County and reunion specials for Beverly Hills and Dallas. Outside of television, I write fiction.

Los Angeles based.

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