Betty Quin (c. 1922/1923 - 28 August 1993) was an Australian playwright, script writer and series script editor who contributed to numerous soap operas in her native Australia (e.g. The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters, A Country Practice, Prisoner and Neighbours).

From 1970 to 1977 she ran the Q Theatre Company, an amateur theatre company she co-founded with her husband, Don Quin, in Adelaide. Many of her 22 plays^[1] and other Australian works were performed by the company.^[2] Robert Stigwood purchased the film rights to her 1970 play, Dinkum Bambino, which had been favourably reviewed by The Advertiser's theatre critic, Mary Armitage.^[3]

She was the aunt of Patrea Smallacombe, the Australian-born script writer for Coronation Street and EastEnders.

Betty Quin died on 28 August 1993 at the age of 70.^[4]

Works

Plays

• The Swallow Flies South, 1961
• A Relative Affair, 1962
• The Travelling Kind, 1962
• A Question of Time, 1963
• For Arts Sake, 1964
• The Listeners, 1967
• The Gentle Jigsaw, 1968
• Cry For The Moon, 1970
• Dinkum Bambino, 1970
• The Constant Gardener, c.1970^[5]
• Up the Track, 1973
• The Golden Years, 1977

Books

• Quin, Betty (1991), Prisoner Cell Block-H: a dangerous affair, Thames Mandarin, ISBN 978-0-7493-0930-5