CORAL KELLY

Coral Drouyn born in 1944 emigrated to Australia from the UK in the 1960s, and worked as a singer, whilst writing material for theatre restaurants. Her stage name was Coral Kelly, and she was the resident female singer on The Bryan Davies Show which aired from 1962 to 1963 on ABC. Retiring from singing and acting, Drouyn began writing for television, working as a scriptwriter for Grundy Productions series such as The Restless Years, Prisoner and Neighbours. During her time on Prisoner, Drouyn worked her way up from freelance writer to in-house story editor, creating characters and stories before leaving the series prior to its 600th episode. Drouyn subsequently was involved in the creation of serial Pacific Drive before performing story editor duties on Blue Heelers and Home and Away. Her book Big Screen, Small Screen, detailing the craft skills involved in screen-writing, was published in 1994. Drouyn now works as a theatre critic.