An explosive, inventive play about the radioactive murder of ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006
Lucy Prebble is a writer for film, television, games and
theatre. Lucy is Co-Executive Producer and writer on the BAFTA
winning HBO media mogul drama Succession, for which she was also
nominated for a WGA Award.
The Effect, a study of love and neuroscience, was performed at the
National Theatre and won the Critics’ Circle Award for Best New
Play. Previous to that she wrote ENRON, a hugely successful piece
about the infamous corporate fraud, which transferred to the West
End and Broadway after sell-out runs at both the Royal Court and
Chichester Festival Theatre. Her first play, The Sugar Syndrome
(2003) won her the George Devine Award and was performed at the
Royal Court.
Her latest play, A Very Expensive Poison, will be on at the Old Vic
Theatre in 2019.
For television, she is the creator of the TV series Secret Diary of
a Call Girl(ITV/Showtime), and has recently made a pilot for HBO
starring Sarah Silverman. Lucy also writes for Frankie Boyle’s New
World Order (BBC) and appears on the TV show as a guest as well as
appearing regularly on Have I Got News For You. She is currently
working on a new TV series starring Billie Piper.
Lucy is fascinated by new technology and where it meets the arts.
She wrote a weekly Tech column for the Observer newspaper and was
Head Scene Writer for Bungie’s massive first person shooter video
game, Destiny.
A playwright blessed with an exceptionally fine mind
*Telegraph*
Truly theatrical. Swivels brilliantly between tragedy and farce
*Observer*
A surprising, theatrical, watchable night ends with a whack of
seriousness.
*Sunday Times*
Funny and frequently exhilarating piece of theatre.
*Time Out*
A brilliantly bold and ferociously intelligent drama about our
slippery times.
*Financial Times*
As tender as it is clever, as incensed as it is inventive. It’s a
wonderful one-off.
*The Times*
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