'The Bold & The Beautiful' Star Heather Tom to Write & Direct All-Female Episode of Soap Opera
Heather Tom is taking her talents behind-the-scenes for an upcoming episode of The Bold and the Beautiful!
The 49-year-old actress is celebrating her 35th anniversary on the daytime soap opera as Katie Logan Spencer, and she’s set to serve as a writer and director on an upcoming all-female episode, Deadline reveals.
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“[Head writer and executive producer] Brad Bell actually came to me and said, ‘this is your 35th year. You’ve been writing and directing. You’ve also been acting the whole time, and I think that it would be amazing if you did all three in one show,’” Heather told the outlet. “I was like, oh, that’ll be interesting! So logistically it was just, well, let’s figure out how I can be on stage acting in the scenes and then directing those scenes. I thought it was very important and agree that it should air during Women’s History Month because it’s historical.”
Set to air next week on March 27th, the episode will focus on mother and daughter relationships, with Rebecca Budig (Taylor), Annika Noelle (Hope), Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke), Jennifer Gareis (Donna), Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Steffy) and, of course, Heather as Katie.
“The mother daughter relationships are so interesting to me and so formative,” Heather said. “And now this is going to make me cry because I lost my mother last year. I wanted to kind of pay homage to her because I certainly wouldn’t be here without her literally and figuratively. So I got a little bit of her in there with Katie and Donna, who are sisters who lost their mom.”
The episode has 45 pages of dialogue, all shot in just one day back in February, and it won’t be a standalone episode!
“It does fit within the story of where they are in the series,” the actress shared. “We considered doing something that was more of a standalone, but Brad felt, and I agreed that it needed to just kind of flow with the story and it made sense.”
The episode will also feature a female stage manager, a female assistant director and female editors.
Heather is no stranger to writing and directing on The Bold and the Beautiful, as she has served as a writer on 11 episodes since 2024, and she has directed 38 episodes since 2016, so far.