Saturday, March 3, 2012

A flair for the dramas: Television lets Dwyer-Dobbin satisfy her passion for theater, career. (The Fifth Estater).(Mickey Dwyer-Dobbin)(Brief Article)

After a brief flirtation with teaching in the mid 1960s, fob lowed by a stint in professional theater, Mickey Dwyer-Dobbin, who now oversees Procter & Gamble's daytime soap operas, found her calling: television.

She was a stage manager looking for the next gig when it hit her: Theaters often go dark. Despite a passion for the stage, Dwyer-Dobbin realized that television--with its constant need for programming, and people to produce it--might just satisfy both her flair for the dramatic and her professional ambitions.

She was right. Of course, she learned early on that TV programming has its own unpredictable rhythm--a rhythm that can end abruptly. She …

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