Elizabeth "Lisa" McGee (born 1980) is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. McGee is the creator and writer of ''

Derry Girls ''Derry Girls'' is a British teen sitcom created and written by Lisa McGee that premiered on 4 January 2018 on Channel 4. The channel's most successful comedy since ''Father Ted'', the series was inspired by McGee's own experiences growing u ...

'', a comedy series that began airing on Channel 4 in the UK in January 2018. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.

Career

She was writer on attachment with the

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in London in 2006. Her plays include ''Jump'', ''The Heights'', ''Nineteen Ninety Two'', and ''Girls and Dolls'', for which she won the Stewart Parker Trust New Playwright Bursary 2007. McGee's television credits include ''The Things I Haven't Told You'' for

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, the Irish television series '' Raw'' which she created for

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, time as a writer for three series of the BAFTA-nominated ''Being Human'' for the BBC, the

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...

sitcom ''London Irish'', which she created, writing for the

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-nominated drama series '' The White Queen'' for

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, '' Indian Summers'' for Channel 4, and ''The Deceived'' for Channel 5 co-written with her husband Tobias Beer. Her stage play ''Jump'' has been adapted into a film.

Personal life

McGee was born in

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to an

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family. She studied at Thornhill College and then studied Drama at

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. She is married to actor Tobias Beer. In December 2022 she received the

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of Derry.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McGee, Lisa 1980 births Living people Writers from Derry (city) People educated at Thornhill College Women screenwriters from Northern Ireland Television writers from Northern Ireland Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Irish women screenwriters BBC 100 Women British women television writers 21st-century dramatists and playwrights from Northern Ireland 21st-century women writers from Northern Ireland Women dramatists and playwrights from Northern Ireland 21st-century British screenwriters