Kay Keavney

She was born in Sydney and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney. She went to work at the ABC, the youngest person and the first woman to be hired as a scriptwriter by that organisation. She resigned from the ABC in 1945.[1]

Kay Keavney (1921–89) was an Australian writer.

In the late 1940s she wrote serials and plays for various networks and production companies and became one of the leading writers of Australian radio.[2]

She went to London to study writing TV drama at the BBC and wrote episodes of The Adventures of Long John Silver.[3] She won two Walkley Awards for her journalism.

Select Credits
gollark: Better technologies are frequently not adopted for stupid reasons and/or inertia.
gollark: They're working on ORC to replace that.
gollark: Like the thread-local garbage collected heaps.
gollark: I'm using Nim quite extensively now, which is nice apart from some weird quirks.
gollark: I just remain slightly dissatisfied with all programming languages in existence, it's great.

References
  1. "A B C RESIGNATIONS". The Argus (30, 704). Melbourne. 24 January 1945. p. 3. Retrieved 28 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Women Who Write Soap Operas Are Known As QUEENS OF THE DRIP DRAMA". South Coast Times And Wollongong Argus. LIII (93). New South Wales, Australia. 30 November 1953. p. 1 (Women's Magazine). Retrieved 28 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Radio writer says:". The Sun (13, 884). Sydney. 12 August 1954. p. 39 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 28 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.



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