LUCY PREBBLE - Playwright / Writer

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 152 - Lucy Prebble - Playwright / Writer

Playwright and writer Lucy Prebble (SUCCESSION, I HATE SUZIE, ENRON) joins us in this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. Lucy’s plays frequently incorporate the physical space of the stage in the telling of the story and involve the audience in engaging and creative ways, and we were excited to talk to her about storytelling both on stage and on screen. We learn how, after a bookish childhood, she eventually found the courage to have her own plays put on, and she reflects on her experiences running her own television show and working on others’. Lucy also wrote for the amply-budgeted video game DESTINY, and she shares (as much as she’s allowed to) how the writing process works for something with that many resources. Lucy also reveals the real-world events that inspired her plays ENRON and THE SUGAR SYNDROME, and we learn how she identifies the real human relationships at the heart these stories. We also discuss the value of empathy and deadlines for a writer, and Lucy makes a prediction for the future of the theatre in the digital age. Plus, we observe that many of history’s greatest writers were really just frustrated actors.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.7	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
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1:31.6	Today we're speaking with a playwright and television writer.
1:35.7	Her television work includes the secret diary of a call girl, Succession, and I Hate Susie.
1:42.2	We're pleased to welcome Lucy Preble. Lucy, thank you for doing this.
1:47.4	Great to see you. It's a pleasure. Nice to see you, Roger. Nice to see, James. Thank you.
1:52.7	We'd love to start with our first question, which is always, how did you get to where you are today?
1:59.0	Were you a kid that was writing plays all the time and
2:02.4	putting on a show? Or was this something you found later that you wanted to be a dentist and then
2:07.9	you found you wanted to write? What's your story? Well, I always think that writers are generally one of two camps. They are often like actors who don't get a good enough part and end up writing one themselves. And some of the greatest writers of all time are that. You know, Shakespeare, I think, Chekhov.
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