The Effect

Lucy Prebble is a writer for film, television, games and theatre. She was an Executive Producer and writer on the BAFTA, GOLDEN GLOBE and EMMY award-winning HBO drama SUCCESSION, for which she has also won a WGA and a PGA Award.  Lucy was an Executive-Producer for the Emmy nominated film MOUNTAINHEAD which is currently streaming on NOW and Sky in the UK, and HBO Max in the US.  She is the writer and co-creator of I HATE SUZIE and I HATE SUZIE TOO which was nominated for five BAFTAs including Best Drama, Best Writer and Best Actress and won her the Royal Television Society Award for Best Writer. It was a huge hit for Sky, topping many major publications’ lists for best shows of 2020 in both the UK and the US where it is available on HBO Max.  She is also the creator and writer of the TV series SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL (ITV/Showtime), and made a pilot for HBO starring Sarah Silverman.  For theatre, Lucy recently had a rewritten version of her award-winning play, THE EFFECT, at the National Theatre, directed by Jamie Lloyd. The show then had a successful transfer to The Shed in New York.  “Tender, thrilling and elegantly beautiful” – ★★★★★ The Stage  She has written the political and emotional meta-thriller A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON which was a sell-out, five star hit for the Old Vic in 2019 and was Olivier nominated for Best New Play, It won the Critics Circle Award for Best New Play and Best New Production of a Play at the Broadway World Awards. It also won her the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.  Lucy is the writer of the infamous ENRON, a hugely successful piece about the infamous corporate fraud, which transferred to the West End after sell-out runs at both the Royal Court and Chichester Festival Theatre and then failed on Broadway. Her first play, THE SUGAR SYNDROME (2003) won her the George Devine Award and was performed at the Royal Court.  Lucy was the recipient of the 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship, allowing her to explore where the world of film meets science and research. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a patron of the David Nobbs Memorial Trust.  Lucy also writes video games and is fascinated by new technology and storytelling. She contributes to major publications as a journalist and wrote a weekly Tech column for the Observer newspaper. In games, she was Head Scene Writer for Bungie’s massively successful first person shooter video game, DESTINY.