Eleanor Labine

The daughter Roland A. Labine, Jr. and Claire Wood, Eleanor Labine is an American screenwriter. A graduate of Yale University, Eleanor joined her mother in the 1980s in writing a number of highly-rated television screenplays. She was the co-head writer for "Ryan's Hope" in the late 1980s and has written for "One Life to Live", "General Hospital", "Port Charles", "Another World", and "Guiding Light". In 1995 she garnered a Daytime Emmy Award in Best Writing for "General Hospital" and in 2005 she won the Writers Guild of America Award for her writing of "Guiding Light". Additionally, Eleanor was nominated in 2002 and 2003 for the Writers Guild of America Award and in 2003 and 2005 for the Daytime Emmy Award in Best Writing for her screenplays of "Guiding Light" in those respective years. Expanding the scope of her work, in 2016 Eleanor wrote the play "Black Powder", a true story of an 1750s free African American family during the French and Indian War. "Black Powder" was selected as a finalist for the 2016 GI Film Festival in Washington, D.C. - a film festival dedicated to promoting positive portrayals of United States veterans. Honoring her Acadian heritage, Eleanor presents a dramatized multimedia program in period costume of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline" to audiences throughout the northeastern United States.