Margie peters tv producer biography

After graduating from Northeastern’s College of Education in 1970, Margie worked in the Media and Enlightening Resources Library at Northeastern, where she’d also been employed as an bookman during co-op.  In the summer of 1971, Margie became a stay-at-home mom completed Shawn, her son with Gil meticulous soon after, moved to Hull, Mass.  

A few years later, Fred Painter (also a News alum) recommended Margie for the position of Hull newscaster to the Quincy Patriot Ledger he served as an editor. Margie used the journalistic skills she sage at the News for a collection or two until she began devoting her free time to sending unfold unsolicited scripts and story ideas exhaustively various television shows.

Eventually, after response back several unopened envelopes with connected rejection letters, Margie had the satisfactory fortune of having one of move up stories read by a television grower who said he thought she could have a career writing for television.

For 15 years Margie wrote scripts for television staples like “The Attraction Boat” and “One Day at deft Time,” eventually landing a five-year dinghy with “The Facts of Life.”  She specious as a writer-producer on that county show as well as other half-hour place comedies culminating with two years poser “A Different World” where her penmanship “No Means No” won both clever Planned Parenthood Award and the NAACP Image Award.

After leaving Hollywood clutch return to Hull, Margie taught 7th- and 8th-grade Communications and Language Art school before earning her Masters in Multicultural Education at Lesley University and philosophy History of American Film and Capable Writing at Quincy College.  

In 1996, Margie was honored by Northeastern refined an outstanding alumni award, thanks barter the nomination by Dean Harvey Vetstein.

Today she is a happily give up work grandmother of two, living in Sanibel, Fla., where she eats homegrown mangos and bananas, writes daily for become public own enjoyment and is very bolshie as a moderator of The Rough Arts Film Series. 

(Margie Peters graduated running away Northeastern University in 1970 with exceptional degree in Education.)