Ken Corday
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June 16, 1950
Ken Corday | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kenneth Robert Corday June 16, 1950 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz San Jose State University |
| Occupations | Producer, music composer |
| Known for | Days of Our Lives |
| Spouse |
Sherry Williams
(m. 1987–2024)Paula Fabiana Corday
(m. 2025) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Ted Corday Betty Corday |
Kenneth Robert Corday (born June 16, 1950) is an American television soap opera producer and music composer.[1] He is the son of Ted Corday and Betty Corday, the co-creators of Days of Our Lives. His production company, Corday Productions, owns 1% of The Young and the Restless while Sony Pictures Television owns the majority of the serial.
Corday graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1977 with a master's degree in music composition.[2]
Positions held
- 1977-78: Production assistant
- 1979; Assistant producer and music composer
- 1981: CEO, Corday Productions Inc. (from May 1986 to present: executive producer)
- 1988: Head writer (during the Writers Guild of America strike)
- 2021: Executive producer of the Peacock-exclusive Days of Our Lives spinoff, Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem.[3]
Awards and nominations
Corday has been nominated for 16 Daytime Emmys. Corday won the Daytime Emmy Award for Music Direction and Composition For a Drama Series in 1990 and 1997, and was nominated in the same category in 2006 and 2007.[citation needed]
He was nominated for the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2009 and 2012. He won the 2007 Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Television Daytime Drama for his work on the series. In 2017 he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[4]
