SPEAKERS
BARBARA CORDAY
Barbara
Corday was Executive Vice President, Primetime Programs, CBS Television.
She was President and Chief Operating Officer of Columbia Pictures Television.
She has been a writer, a producer and also the co-creator of the series
Cagney
and Lacey. Recently she was President of New World Television.
Currently Ms. Corday is a professor and chairman of the Production Department
at the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California.
In her
positions at CBS, Columbia and New World, Corday was responsible for development
of new series, the production of those series, current programs, motion
pictures for television, mini-series, specials and in-house production.
She also supervised talent and casting. At Columbia she also oversaw
daytime programs and at New World added the first run syndication to her
repertoire.
With
her longtime former partner, Barbara Avedon, Corday was the writer and
creator of Cagney and Lacey which began as a tv movie and went on
to a six year run as a highly acclaimed series on the CBS network.
After
a three year stint as Vice President of Comedy Series at ABC, Corday left
to start her own company, Can't Sing Can't Dance Productions, under a overall
deal at Columbia Pictures Television division of the studio which she ran
for another four years.
In earlier
years Corday wrote dozens of episodes of tv series, produced tv movies
and series and co-created another Emmy nominated drama, American Dream.
In an even earlier life, Corday started her show business career as a publicist.
Corday
is the recipient of a Genii Award for Outstanding Achievement by American
Women in Radio and Television. She has also received awards from
the ACLU, Big Sisters of Los Angeles, New York Women in Film, CARAL and
the Women's Conference of the Jewish Federation Council of Los Angeles,
among others. She is a founding member of the Hollywood Women's Political
Committee and sits on the boards of the Las Angeles Free Clinic and the
Southern California ACLU.
She lives
in Los Angeles with her husband and has a grown daughter.