Career
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 Almeida Theatre in London, and in 1989 shown as a British Broadcasting Corporation television Screenplay starring Linus Roache. Gannon has written several single or short run dramas, including Dad,, Trip Trap, The Gift, Big Cat, Pure Wickedness, The Best Of Men, The Children.
In 2008 Lucy Gannon criticised the British Broadcasting Corporation, saying that delays in commissioning programmes threaten writers and producers. In 2012 Gannon wrote the one-off BBC2 drama The Best of Men which told the story of the first Paralympic Games and starred Eddie Marsan and Rob Brydon.
She is the lead writer and creator of the 2013 British Broadcasting Corporation One drama series Frankie.
She is developing a three-part drama for the British Broadcasting Corporation, a four-part drama, a radio play and a film.
