George Kay (writer)

George Kay is an English screenwriter. He wrote and co-created the international Netflix series Criminal and Lupin, and the Apple TV+ thriller Hijack, starring Idris Elba, as well as writing and executive-producing the 2022 television series Litvinenko. He has also worked on the shows Stag, My Mad Fat Diary, The Hour, The Tunnel, and the first season of Killing Eve.

Whilst a teenage student at Wellington College, Berkshire, Kay met director Jim Field Smith, with whom he often collaborates.

Whilst writing the script for Litvinenko, Kay had access to transcripts of Alexander Litvinenko's eighteen hours of deathbed interviews with the Metropolitan Police. Litvinenko's widow, Marina, and the Metropolitan Police supported the production of the series. The show has been sold to over eighty international territories.

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