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Lucy Prebble

LUCY PREBBLE

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  

Lucy's new play the EFFECT is currently playing at the National Theatre directed by Rupert Goold and co-produced with Headlong in November 2012. She is also under commission to the Royal Court and writing a Drama for the BBC with Tiger Aspect. Her play, ENRON, transferred to the West End and Broadway in 2010 after sell out runs at both the Royal Court and Chichester Festival Theatre. Lucy is currently adapting it for Sony Pictures. In addition to the critical acclaim it has received, ENRON also won the award for Best New Play at the TMA Theatre Awards, and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Award and Olivier Award for Best New Play. 'Michael Frayn did it with quantum mechanics, Simon McBurney did it with maths, now Lucy Prebble has done it with accounting. She and her director Rupert Goold have achieved the remarkable feat of making fiendish corporate fraud not just comprehensible to the layman but also Dramatically exhilarating'. Financial Times * * * * * Lucy created the TV series SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL, starring Billie Piper. SECRET DIARY enjoyed three series and was sold to Showtime, the major US chAnnel famed for its daring Dramas. Lucy won the prestigious George Devine Award 2004 for her play the SUGAR SYNDROME in May 2004, followed by the TMA Award for Best New Play in October 2004. She also won the 2004 Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. 'If there's a funnier, sadder, wiser play looking at paedophilia and prejudice this year, even this decade, I'd be amazed.' the Daily Telegraph Lucy's first one act play, LIQUID, was selected for performance at the National Student Drama Festival 2002 where Lucy received the PMA Most Promising Playwright Award. Lucy is represented in the US by CAA.

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below is a list of Lucy Prebble's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Effect, The         Enron         Liquid         Sugar Syndrome, The
Effect, The

Effect, The
A clinical romance from the writer of ENRON. This funny and moving new play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine.

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Enron

Enron
"Are you kidding me? Did we take Advantage? That's what we do, that's how the world works! When you Ask, 'Did you take Advantage?', I hear 'Do you make A living?', 'Do you breathe in And out?', 'Are you A man?'! Yes, we took Advantage! And the only difference between me And the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did.'' One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes A theatrical epic in Lucy Prebble's new play. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, it follows A group of flawed men And women in A narrative of greed And loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s And casts A new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2009.

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Liquid

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1st Produced:
National Student Drama Festival     2002

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Sugar Syndrome, The

Synopsis:
Through a chatroom meets Lewis a lonely boy with sexual hang-ups. She arranges to meet another person she has been chatting to - Tim - who has told her is is an 11 year old boy. He is in fact in his 30s.He has been to prison for sexual offences. Tim and Dani strike up a friendship. Lewis is jealous and informs the police about what is going on. Tim asks Dani to keep his lap top that has material on it he does not want the police to see.

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1st Produced:
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London     16 Oct 2003

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Samuel French, London, 2005   

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