Susan Nickson

Susan Nickson
Born	1982 (age 40–41) Runcorn, Cheshire, England
Occupation	Screenwriter television producer script editor
Years active	1994–present

Susan Nickson (born 1982) is an English screenwriter, television producer and script editor. She is the creator and writer of the BBC sitcoms Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001–2011) and Grownups (2006–2009).

Early life

Nickson was born in 1982 and raised in Runcorn, Cheshire, where she attended The Grange School.

Career

Nickson won the Lloyds Bank Film Challenge at the age of 14 with a ten-minute short film called Buddah's Legs. She then wrote a half-hour comedy for Channel 4 called Life's A Bitch. Her most famous series, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, was created while she was in secondary school and ran for ten years. She appeared briefly in one episode of the show, as a patient waiting to be seen in A&E while Gaz and Jonny were both patients. In April 2010, it was announced that Nickson would leave the series to focus on a number of new projects in both England and the United States. In addition to writing and creating her own shows, she has also worked as a producer and script editor.

External links

• Susan Nickson at IMDb