From there, he returned to New York where he worked for four seasons with the American Shakespeare Festival in Connecticut and on national tour.
He toured the US as stage manager for Victor Borge, then worked with Mike Todd's America Be Seated as well as The Birds and The Orestea in the Ypsilanti Greek Festival.
From 1981-83, he shared head writing duties with Nixon, and from 1986-87, was co-head writer with Lorraine Broderick.
After leaving All My Children Washam worked in Paris while assisting development of the European soap opera which eventually aired as Riviera.
Washam won a Daytime Emmy Award[1] for Outstanding Writing Team as All My Children's co-head writer alongside Nixon in 1985, and another with Broderick in 1988.