Lucy Prebble (born in 1981) is a British playwright.She grew up in Haslemere, Surrey, and went to Guildford High School. Whilst doing English at her University, she wrote a small play called Liquid and won the P.M.A. Most Promising Playwright Award. She won the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014.She also won the George Devine Award for her play The Sugar Syndrome in May 2004, then the TMA Award for Best New Play in October, 2004.Since The Sugar Syndrome, she has wrote many other plays and TV programmes and is the creator of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The Effect, another of her plays, won the 2012 Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. The Effect premiered in a theatre on the second of March 2016.