Lucy Prebble

Lucy Ashton Prebble (born 18 December 1980) is a British playwright and producer. She is the author of the plays The Sugar Syndrome, The Effect, ENRON and A Very Expensive Poison. For television, she adapted Secret Diary of a Call Girl and co-created I Hate Suzie with her close friend Billie Piper - in addition to serving as a writer and an executive producer on Succession, for which she received two Primetime Emmy Awards. Biography Prebble grew up in Haslemere, Surrey, and was educated at Guildford High School. While studying English at the University of Sheffield, Prebble wrote a short play called Liquid, which won the PMA Most Promising Playwright Award. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014. Theatre Prebble's first full-length play The Sugar Syndrome was performed at the Royal Court in 2003 and won her the George Devine Award, followed by the TMA Award for Best New Play in October 2004.