Lisa McGee

Elizabeth "Lisa" McGee (born August 1980) is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. McGee is the creator and writer of Derry Girls, 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 Royal National Theatre 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 BBC Three, the Irish television series Raw which she created for RTÉ, time as a writer for three series of the BAFTA-nominated Being Human for the BBC, the Channel 4 sitcom London Irish, which she created, writing for the Golden Globe-nominated drama series The White Queen for BBC 1, 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.

In Summer 2023, Channel 4 green lit McGee's "How To Get To Heaven From Belfast" for broadcast in 2024.

Personal life
McGee was born in Derry, Northern Ireland to Irish Catholic parents, Chris and Anne McGee. She studied at Thornhill College and then studied drama at Queen's University Belfast.

She is married to actor Tobias Beer.

In December 2022 she received the Freedom of the City of Derry.

Awards
In 2024 McGee was awarded the 2022-23 literary award Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. The prize honours work promoting peace and reconciliation.

In 2023 McGee was the winner of the British Academy Television Craft Awards.