Writer/producer Lynn Bayonas passes away
The creative behind classic shows such as The Sullivans, A Country Practice and The Saddle Club died of cancer last Monday; a memorial service will take place on Friday 29 January in Melbourne.
Bayonas’ last project was the popular series The Sadlle Club, and she was the head of her own production company, Lynn Bayonas Productions, based in Preston, Victoria.
According to Bayonas’s sister, Neighbours executive producer Susan Bower, the memorial service will be a ‘celebration of life’. The family have requested not to receive flowers for the ceremony. Instead, they are encouraging friends and colleagues to make a donation to either The Ballarat Hospice or The Hepburn Health Service District Nursing Service.
The service will be this Friday at 2:30pm, at Life Saving Victoria, 200 The Boulevard, Port Melbourne.
Bayonas’s first contact with the screen industry happened in London, when she became Orson Welles’s assistant for three years in the late 1960s. From Welles, Bayonas said she learned “how to get the characters right and know the story you wanted to tell”, but also to “venture into unexplored territory” while developing it. She worked for Welles in Spain, where she met her husband Luis Bayonas.
The Bayonas relocated to Australia, and Lynn spent time at the ABC, Seven and Nine. At different capacities – from writer to producer, script editor and head of drama – Bayonas was one of the driving forces behind The Sullivans, Homicide, Division 4, Rush, A Country Practice, Flying Doctors, Fields of Fire, All the Way, Willing and Abel, and the notorious melodrama Chances.
In the nineties saw Bayonas settle in Los Angeles, working for the NBC soap Sunset Beach and the Joan Collins sitcom Pearl Before Swine. The noughties saw her produce one of her biggest commercial and critical successes, the children’s Australian/Canadian co-production The Saddle Club (2001-2009).
Bayonas is survived by his son Daniel, her grandchild Luca and her sister Susan Bower.
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