Lucy Gannon (born 1948) is a British playwright and television writer, and producer. She was the recipient of the 1989-90

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Life

Lucy Gannon once worked as a military policewoman, a residential social worker, and a nurse, and lived in a concrete council house with no central heating. She later moved to a converted barn in Derbyshire and now lives near Cardigan, in Wales. She started, in 1987, to enter the Richard Burton Award for New Playwrights. Her play, ''Keeping Tom Nice'', about a disabled boy whose father commits suicide, earned her the award and a six-month writer-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1988 ''Keeping Tom Nice'' was shown at the

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in London, and in 1989 shown as a BBC TV Screenplay starring

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. Gannon has written several single or short run dramas, including ''Dad'', ''Tender Loving Care'', ''Trip Trap'', ''The Gift'', ''Big Cat'', ''Pure Wickedness'', ''The Best Of Men'', ''The Children''. In 2008 Lucy Gannon criticised the BBC, saying that delays in commissioning programmes threaten writers and producers. In 1996 she was awarded the MBE for services to Drama, and among her awards are The Eileen Anderson Award, The Richard Burton Drama Award, The Susan Smith Blackburn Award, The BAFTA Cymru, and the Contribution To The Media Award (

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) and, most recently, the RTS Award (South West England) for Best Writer for her film The Best Of Men. In 2012 Gannon wrote the

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BBC2 drama The Best of Men which told the story of the first Paralympic Games and starred

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and

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. She is the lead writer and creator of the 2013 BBC One drama series ''

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''.

Works

Plays

*''Broken Hearted'', 2010 * *''Tender Loving Care'' *''Dancing Attendance'', 1990 *''A Dog Barking'', 1988 *''Janet And John'', 1988 *''Raping The Gold'', 1988 *''Wicked Old Nellie'', 1987

Teleplays

*'' The Best of Men'' (2012) TV Film *'' The Children'' (2008) TV mini-series (writer) *'' Wild at Heart'' (1 episode, 2007) (writer) *'' Dad'' (2005) (TV) (writer) *"Blue Dove" (2003) TV mini-series (creator) (writer) *"

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" (2003) TV series (writer) *Plain Jane (2002) (TV) (writer) *"'' Hope & Glory'' (creator and writer, 1999-2000) *Pure Wickedness (1999) (TV) (writer) *Big Cat (1998) (TV) (writer) *The Gift (1998) (TV) (writer) *" Bramwell" (17 episodes, 1995–1998) *Trip Trap (1996) (TV) (writer) *"Peak Practice" (15 episodes, 1993–1994) *"Screen One" (1 episode, 1993) *"Soldier Soldier" TV series 1991-1997 (creator) (writer 11 episodes, 1991–1992) *A Small Dance (1991) (writer) *Testimony of a Child (1989) (TV) (screenplay)

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gannon, Lucy 1948 births Living people British dramatists and playwrights British television producers British women television producers British television writers British women television writers