About Me

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Roger Newcomb is a producer, writer, and media entrepreneur known for championing independent storytellers and preserving the legacy of serialized entertainment. He is the founder and executive producer of the Indie Series Awards, a leading international celebration of excellence in independently produced and digital series.

His producing and writing credits include the feature film Manhattanites, the short May Mercy Lie, TV pilot We Be Nurses, and the long‑running interview series We Love Soaps TV, Serial Scoop Now, and nearly a thousand episodes of the radio soaps Scripts & Scruples and Rockland County. Roger appears in the documentary Soap Life and has been featured in The New York Times, Mental Floss, NPR's The Bryant Park Project, CTV's National News, Soap Opera Digest, Variety, and numerous TV, radio, podcast, and digital outlets.

He contributed a chapter to the academic book The Survival of Soap Opera, analyzing As the World Turns’ first gay storyline, and served as Editorial Director for Broadway Video’s Soap Classics DVD project, curating releases from more than 20,000 hours of archival footage.