Lucy Prebble

Lucy Prebble
Prebble in 2023
Born
Lucy Ashton Prebble

(1980-12-18) 18 December 1980 (age 43)
Haslemere, Surrey, England
EducationUniversity of Sheffield
Occupations
  • Writer
  • producer
Years active2003–present

Lucy Ashton Prebble (born 18 December 1980)[1][2][3] is a British playwright and producer. She has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award as well as two Laurence Olivier Awards.

Prebble made her professional debut as a playwright with her play The Sugar Syndrome (2003) for which she received the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. She went on to write ENRON (2010) which premiered on the West End and Broadway. The play earned a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. She wrote The Effect (2012) which won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play. She debuted her latest play A Very Expensive Poison (2019) for which she received another Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play nomination.

For television, she created the ITV2 series Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007–2011)[4] and co-created the Sky Atlantic series I Hate Suzie (2020–2022) with her close friend Billie Piper. From 2018 to 2023 she served as a writer and an executive producer on the acclaimed HBO drama series Succession, for which she received three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series.[5]

  1. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (28 November 2019). "'Succession' Scribe Lucy Prebble Talks Potential Season 3 Storyline, A Horror Project Inspired By A Cult Classic & What The Wellcome Fellowship Means To Her". Deadline. Retrieved 8 October 2023. I was born in 1980 at the beginning of the games boom.
  2. ^ Prebble, Lucy (18 December 2017). "It's my birthday!". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  3. ^ Tripney, Natasha (18 March 2020). "Lucy Prebble". The Stage. Retrieved 8 October 2023. Born: 1980
  4. ^ Tim Adams (5 July 2009). "'I hate to be told somewhere is out of bounds for women.' Enter Enron". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Andreas Wiseman (28 November 2019). "Succession Scribe Lucy Prebble Talks Potential Season 3 Storyline, A Horror Project Inspired By A Cult Classic & What The Wellcome Fellowship Means To Her". Deadline.