Lucy Gannon, MBE (born 1948) is a British playwright, television writer, and producer.
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.
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.
[1] As well as creating longer series, including Peak Practice, Gannon has written several single or short run dramas for television, including Dad, Tender Loving Care, Trip Trap, The Gift, Big Cat, Pure Wickedness and The Children.
In 2012 Gannon wrote the one-off BBC Two drama The Best of Men which told the story of the first Paralympic Games and starred Eddie Marsan and Rob Brydon.