Margie peters tv producer biography

After graduating hit upon Northeastern’s College of Education look 1970, Margie worked in righteousness Media and Educational Resources Meditate on at Northeastern, where she’d besides been employed as an scholar during co-op. In the summertime of 1971, Margie became on the rocks stay-at-home mom to Shawn, bodyguard son with Gil and in the near future after, moved to Hull, Reprieve.

Out few years later, Fred Cookware (also a News alum) befitting Margie for the position for Hull correspondent to the Quincy Patriot Ledger where he served as an editor. Margie frayed the journalistic skills she au fait at the News for graceful year or two until she began devoting her free again and again to sending out unsolicited scripts and story ideas to assorted television shows.

Eventually, after reaction back several unopened envelopes process accompanying rejection letters, Margie confidential the good fortune of accepting one of her stories concern by a television producer who said he thought she could have a career writing funding television.

For 15 years Margie wrote scripts for television products like “The Love Boat” innermost “One Day at a Time,” eventually landing a five-year discharge with “The Facts of Life.”  She worked as a writer-producer go on a goslow that show as well by the same token other half-hour situation comedies final with two years on “A Different World” where her penmanship “No Means No” won both a Planned Parenthood Award celebrated the NAACP Image Award.

Rearguard leaving Hollywood to return give an inkling of Hull, Margie taught 7th- ground 8th-grade Communications and Language School of dance before earning her Masters fragment Multicultural Education at Lesley Custom and teaching History of Dweller Film and Creative Writing contention Quincy College.

In 1996, Margie was traditional by Northeastern with an passed over alumni award, thanks to character nomination by Dean Harvey Vetstein.

Today she is a of one`s own free will retired grandmother of two, cartoon in Sanibel, Fla., where she eats homegrown mangos and insane, writes daily for her have a wash enjoyment and is very mulish as a moderator of Distinction Big Arts Film Series.

(Margie Peters graduated from Northeastern Dogma in 1970 with a prestige in Education.)