After this, he joined ABC Daytime's All My Children from 1991–1993 under the leadership of Megan McTavish and Felicia Minei Behr.
At the behest of ABC Daytime, he created the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles along with his wife Carolyn, and served as head writer with her for the first few months of the show's run.
After taking a short break, he briefly joined the writing team of Days of Our Lives as a script writer.
After a drug pushing storyline (which was actually started by Passanante) dragged on too long, some fans became frustrated at the show's slow pace.
His more popular decisions were creating characters Frankie Stone (in 2001) and Maggie Stone (in January 2002)[1] and bringing back character Kendall Hart (originated by Sarah Michelle Gellar, and currently portrayed by Alicia Minshew) in January 2002.
In 2012, he won a Daytime Emmy Award as part of the Days of Our Lives writing team, for work in 2011.
In 2007, he won the award again, as part of the writing staff of As the World Turns the previous year; indeed, he didn't just happen to be on the staff, but had been the credited script writer for one of the three scripts submitted by As the World Turns to be judged for the award.
[3] All My Children Another World As the World Turns Days of Our Lives General Hospital Guiding Light Port Charles Santa Barbara Search for Tomorrow Sunset Beach (hired by Meg Bennett) Texas Daytime Emmy Awards