Lucy Prebble is a British playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

. She is the author of the plays The Sugar Syndrome

The Sugar Syndrome

The Sugar Syndrome is a play written by British writer Lucy Prebble. It has won several awards and as of 2009 has been sold in seven languages.-Synopsis:...

 and ENRON

ENRON (play)

ENRON is a 2009 play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble, based on the Enron scandal.-Productions:ENRON premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre , before London transfers to the Jerwood Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre from 17 September to 7 November 2009 and then the Noel Coward...

 and the television series Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 2007-2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class London call girl. The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also known as the author of The...

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Biography

Prebble grew up in Haslemere

Haslemere

Haslemere is a town in Surrey, England, close to the border with both Hampshire and West Sussex. The major road between London and Portsmouth, the A3, lies to the west, and a branch of the River Wey to the south. Haslemere is approximately south-west of Guildford.Haslemere is surrounded by hills,...

, Surrey

Surrey

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, and was educated at Guildford High School

Guildford High School

Guildford High School is an all girls independent school not far from Guildford High Street, on London Road, Guildford, Surrey. It works closely with the Royal Grammar School. It houses a junior and senior school, and a sixth-form college...

. While studying English at the University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...

, Prebble wrote a short play called Liquid, which won the PMA Most Promising Playwright Award.

Prebble subsequently won the prestigious George Devine Award for her debut play The Sugar Syndrome in May 2004, followed by the TMA Award for Best New Play in October 2004.

Since The Sugar Syndrome she has worked on other plays and TV shows and was the creator of Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 2007-2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class London call girl. The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also known as the author of The...

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She has commissions from the Royal National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

, as well as the Royal Court Theatre, according to the Rod Hall Agency.

Works

• Liquid, 2002
• The Sugar Syndrome, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, November 2003
• ENRON
  ENRON (play)
  ENRON is a 2009 play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble, based on the Enron scandal.-Productions:ENRON premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre , before London transfers to the Jerwood Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre from 17 September to 7 November 2009 and then the Noel Coward...
  
  , which was produced by Headlong Theatre
  Headlong (group)
  Headlong is a British theatre company noted for reworking plays of the past and commissioning new work. It was previously called Anvil Productions and then the Oxford Stage Company...
  
  , premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre
  Chichester Festival Theatre
  Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....
  
   in 2009 before transferring first to the Royal Court, and then into the Noel Coward Theatre
  Noël Coward Theatre
  The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre on St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster. It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre and was built by Sir Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham's Theatre which was completed in 1899. The building was designed by...
  
   in the West End
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
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Reviews

Enron is a bitter but highly entertaining fable for our times. It is only Lucy Prebble’s second play, but already she has outstripped a great predecessor. Ben Jonson’s greatest theatrical creations are urban comedies which show predatory usurers, “projectors” and clever young men on the make taking ingenious advantage of a crowd of foolishly naïve, and equally greedy, gulls. But even the cynical Jonson knew that social convention required him to close his comedies with conviviality, on stage and off.

External links

• Lucy Prebble at Doollee.com Playwrights Database
• "Enron: much ado about money", Prospect, Michael Coveney