Jean Passanante (born June 26, 1953) is an American television screenwriter, best known for her work in daytime soap operas.
Passanante got her start as an actress doing bit parts in the 1980s, including the John Sayles' films Return of the Secaucus 7 and Lianna.
[5][6] Passanante got her start on soaps working as a staff writer on the ABC Daytime drama One Life to Live from 1992 to 1996.
From January 25, 2008, through April 17, 2008, ATWT episodes were written by non-union writers due to Passanante and her team participating in the WGA strike.
[9] Her retirement was reported in 2017,[10] but in 2020 she was one of the recruits for a fiction app named "Radish" which had $63m of funding and it was opening an office in LA.
The soap writers recruited included Passanante, Janet Iacobuzio, Addie Walsh, Lisa Connor and Leah Laiman.