Daytime television veteran Claire Labine was honored when she received the Ian McLellan Hunter Award at the 2012 Writers Guild Awards East Coast Ceremony, which took place at B.B. King Blues Club in NYC on Sunday, February 19, 2012. Kate Mulgrew presented the award. 

A pioneer of daytime television, Claire Labine created, and wrote Ryan’s Hope from 1975 to 1989. Following her 14 year run on the show, she wrote such films as The Bride in Black, She Woke Up, and Star. From 1993 to 1996 Ms. Labine wrote for General Hospital, where she wrote a groundbreaking storyline centered on AIDS. She was head writer for One Life to Live from 1996-1998 and head writer for Guiding Light from 2000-2001.

The Ian McLellan Hunter Award was established in 1992 and named in memory of longtime WGAE member Ian McLellan Hunter. The award is presented to a WGA member in honor of his/her body of work as a writer in motion pictures or television. Hunter’s more than 20 screen credits include Eye Witness and A Woman of Distinction. Harassed by the blacklist in the 1950s, Hunter went on to write several successful television series under a pseudonym and then reemerged as a writer on many television projects, including The Blue and The Gray.

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