Screenwriter and executive producer Muirinn Lane Kelly has died aged 50. The exec, who has credits for Waterloo Road and Mistresses in the UK passed away this week.
She was more recently an executive producer on Sky Atlantic and Epic drama Domina. Kelly began her career working at Roger Corman’s Connemara studio for two years in the late 1990s before moving into development at the BBC, where she was script editor on shows such as Silent Witness and Waking the Dead.
She later moved to Ecosse Films, where she was a writer on BBC One’s Mistresses, which was later remade in the U.S. for ABC.
She went on to write for BBC school drama Waterloo Road and Raw for Irish pubcaster RTE1 and then joined Bandit Television, where she became EP on two seasons of Dawn French comedy Delicious.
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