Elected: 2022
Lisa McGee, an award-winning screenwriter and playwright from Derry, is the creator, writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed Derry Girls. She co-created, co-wrote and was executive producer on The Decieved with her husband Tobias Beer and was creative director, executive producer and wrote an episode of the BBC monologues on poverty Skint. Her other TV credits include London Irish, Raw, Being Human, The White Queen and Indian Summers.
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Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
