Georgia Pritchett (born 1968) is a British producer, screenwriter, and author. She is best known for her work on Veep and Succession, as well as her book My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety. The Guardian described Pritchett as "one of the country’s most successful screenwriters".[1]
Georgia Pritchett | |
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 Pritchett (right) with fellow Succession writer Jon Brown in 2023 | |
| Born | 1968 London, England |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
| Relatives | Matt Pritchett (brother) V. S. Pritchett (grandfather) |
Life and career
editPritchett was born in London, England in 1968,[2] and raised in South London by her parents, Josephine Haworth, an author, and Oliver Pritchett, a journalist and columnist. Her brother Matt is a cartoonist, and her grandfather is writer and literary critic, V. S. Pritchett.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Pritchett cited US sitcoms as an early influence in her interest in writing, saying "I was one of those people who would like to watch things again and again, and learn huge chunks and recite them in what is [an] apparently quite irritating way. So I can kind of thought, I love dialogue and I would love to write dialogue and I like the collaborative [nature]."[3] Additionally, Pritchett has cited Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sharon Horgan, and Michaela Coel as women in the writing industry that she admires, stressing the gender imbalance in the television industry.[4]
In 2021, Pritchett published her memoir, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety, about her experiences in screenwriting as someone suffering anxiety.[5][6]
She joined the British American Project in 2023.[7]
Filmography
edit| Title[8] | Year | Functioned as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writer | Producer | Other | |||
| Thatcherworld | 1993 | Yes | TV movie, sketch writer | ||
| Spitting Image | 1993 | Yes | 1 episode | ||
| Small Talk | 1994 | Yes | Script Associate, Programme Associate, 1 episode | ||
| Never Mind the Horrocks | 1996 | Yes | TV movie | ||
| We Know Where You Live | 1997 | Yes | |||
| An Audience with Ronnie Corbett | 1997 | Yes | TV special, additional material writer | ||
| Ned's Newt | 1998 | Yes | 5 episodes | ||
| S Club 7 in Miami | 1999 | Yes | 4 episodes | ||
| S Club 7: Back to the 50's | 1999 | Yes | TV movie | ||
| S Club 7 in L.A. | 2000 | Yes | 3 episodes | ||
| Joan | 2000 | Short | |||
| High Heels and Low Lifes | 2001 | Yes | Story Writer | ||
| Down to Earth | 2001 | Yes | 2 episodes | ||
| Hollywood 7 | 2001 | Yes | 4 episodes | ||
| Smack the Pony | 2000-2001 | Yes | Yes | Script Associate - 14 episodes, writer - 11 episodes | |
| Ed Stone Is Dead | 2002 | Yes | 1 episode | ||
| Viva S Club | 2002 | Yes | 3 episodes | ||
| My Family | 2003-2004 | Yes | 2 episodes | ||
| Bognor or Bust | 2004 | Yes | Program Associate | ||
| 2DTV | 2004 | Yes | Yes | Produced - 1 episode
Head Writer | |
| The Lenny Henry Show | 2004 | Yes | 1 episode | ||
| Barking! | 2004 | Yes | Creator | ||
| Feel the Force | 2006 | Yes | 6 episodes | ||
| Trexx and Flipside | 2008 | Yes | 1 episode | ||
| Not Going Out | 2009 | Yes | Additional Material Writer | ||
| Life of Riley | 2009-2011 | Yes | Yes | Creator, writer - 20 episodes | |
| Miranda | 2010-2013 | Yes | Additional Material writer | ||
| Waterloo Road | 2011 | Yes | 1 episode | ||
| The Thick of It | 2012 | Yes | Writer - 1 episode, Additional material writer - 1 episode | ||
| Quick Cuts | 2013 | Yes | Writer - 3 episodes | ||
| Veep | 2013-2019 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Writer - 6 episodes
Consulting Producer - 25 episodes Co-executive Producer - 20 episodes Supervising Producer - 12 episodes |
| PYPO Park Bench Mistakes | 2016 | Yes | TV movie | ||
| Glued | 2016 | Yes | 6 episodes | ||
| The Crying Room | 2016 | Yes | 1 episode | ||
| Scream Street | 2016 | Yes | |||
| Loaded | 2017 | Yes | 2 episodes | ||
| Tracey Ullman's Show | 2016-2018 | Yes | 15 episodes | ||
| Tracey Breaks the News | 2017-2018 | Yes | 4 episodes | ||
| Succession | 2018-2021 | Yes | Yes | Co-Executive Producer - 28 episodes
Writer - 4 episodes | |
| Avenue 5 | 2020 | Yes | Supervising Producer - 1 episode
Story writer - 2 episodes Teleplay writer - 2 episodes | ||
| Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom | 2020 | Yes | 1 episode | ||
| Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration | 2020 | Yes | TV movie | ||
| Run | 2020 | Yes | Yes | Consulting Producer - 6 episodes
Writer - 1 episode | |
| The Shrink Next Door | 2021 | Yes | Yes | Executive Producer - 8 episodes
Writer - 4 episodes | |
Awards
edit- 2022 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for Succession
- 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for Succession
- 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for Veep
- 2017 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for Veep
- 2016 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for Veep
- 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for Veep[9]
Writers Guild of America Awards:
- 2014 Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series for Veep
- 2016 Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series for Veep
- 2018 Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series for Veep
- 2020 Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Dramatic Series for Succession[10]
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards:
- 2016 Best TV Situation Comedy for Veep[11]
Publications
edit- My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety, 2021, HarperOne, ISBN 9780063206380[12]
References
edit- ^ Brockes, Emma (3 July 2021). "Georgia Pritchett: 'My male equivalents on Veep and Succession all got their own shows'". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ Pritchett, Georgia (20 November 2021). "On my radar: Georgia Pritchett's cultural highlights". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ Perez, Lexy (4 February 2022). "From 'Succession' to 'Veep': Georgia Pritchett's Memoir Explores Her Comic Mind, Adventures With Anxiety". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ Simon, Samantha (13 January 2022). "Roman Roy's Divine Dysfunction Came Straight From the Mind (and 'Mess') of This 'Succession' Writer". InStyle. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ "Georgia Pritchett's messy life". Radio New Zealand. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ "Funny person Georgia Pritchett writes about her life and her anxiety". NPR. 14 February 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ https://twitter.com/kennardmatt/status/1699156416462750144 [bare URL]
- ^ "Georgia Pritchett". IMDB. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ "Georgia Pritchett". Emmy Awards. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ "Writers Guild Awards Winners & Nominees: 2021-2013". Writers Guild Awards. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
- ^ "WRITERS' GUILD AWARDS 2016". The Writers' Union. 18 January 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
- ^ "My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety". Harper Collins Publishers. Retrieved 20 October 2022.