Josh Griffith - Career

Career

Josh Griffith began his writing career on Santa Barbara in 1988 and continued writing for the show until 1991 when he moved over to One Life to Live where he began as an associate head writer under Michael Malone before being promoted to co-head writer in early 1992. Under his and Malone's tenure at OLTL, the show won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in 1994. Griffith left OLTL in early 1995.

In 1997, Griffith was co-creator of the NBC Daytime soap opera Sunset Beach along with Robert Guza, Jr. and the show ran for just two years before being cancelled in December 1999.

In the spring of 2003, Griffith and Michael Malone returned to OLTL for a second stint as head writers, however they remained with the show for just a year. After leaving OLTL, Griffith became a script writer on CBS' As the World Turns under head writer Hogan Sheffer, who shortly afterwards stepped down as head writer. He would later return to ATWT briefly between 2009-2010.

In 2006, Vice President of CBS Daytime Barbara Bloom brought Griffith over to The Young and the Restless as a creative consultant and breakdown writer under Lynn Marie Latham and within just three months, he was promoted to co-executive producer to work along side of Latham. Griffith assumed full producer duties after Latham was fired for departing her post as Executive Producer as well as head writer to go on strike during the WGA strike. During the 2007-2008 Writers strike, he took over as Head Writer of CBS Daytimes The Young and the Restless. To do this, he accepted Financial core status with the WGA. Maria Arena Bell, a former writer at The Bold and the Beautiful and daughter-in-law of Y&R creator William J. Bell & Lee Phillip Bell, joined him as Co-Head Writer.

In August 2008, Griffith was fired from his executive producer duties by Barbara Bloom and Steven Kent of Sony Pictures Television. However, in late July 2012, Griffith was rehired at The Young and the Restless under the new regime with newly hired executive producer Jill Farren Phelps, as the sole head writer of the CBS Daytime soap opera. His episodes begin airing October 12, 2012.

After leaving Y&R in 2008, Griffith moved to General Hospital where he briefly worked as a writer in 2009.