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479. Want to get your ideas to Broadway, London or the movies? Critically acclaimed playwright, Lindsey Ferrentino, explains how she does it.
Lindsey Ferrentino is a prolific playwright who writes with, according to The New York Times, "a muscular empathy which seeks to enter the minds of people for whom life is often a struggle of heroic proportions".
Whether writing about a female burn survivor or the first leading role for a person with Down Syndrome, Lindsey has been called "a brave playwright of dauntless conviction whose unflinching portraits are hard to come by outside of journalism."
Her produced plays include Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company, The National Theatre, UK, NYT Critics Pick), the "barrier breaking" Amy and the Orphans (Roundabout Theatre Company), This Flat Earth (Playwrights Horizons), and The Year to Come (La Jolla Playhouse). She is writing the book on a number of new musicals from – Queen of Versailles with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, starring Kristin Chenoweth; The Artist, based on the film by the same title directed by Drew McConie. Lindsey Ferrentino is the recipient of the 2016 Kesselring Prize, Laurents/ Hatcher Citation of Excellence, ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize, Paul Newman Drama Award, 2015 Kilroys List, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn, Catalyst Award for Entertainment Industry Excellence, NYU Distinguished Young Alumna Award, nominated for the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, and is the only two-time finalist for the Kendeda Playwriting Prize.
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Lindsey Ferrentino is a prolific playwright who writes with, according to The New York Times, "a muscular empathy which seeks to enter the minds of people for whom life is often a struggle of heroic proportions".
Whether writing about a female burn survivor or the first leading role for a person with Down Syndrome, Lindsey has been called "a brave playwright of dauntless conviction whose unflinching portraits are hard to come by outside of journalism."
Her produced plays include Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company, The National Theatre, UK, NYT Critics Pick), the "barrier breaking" Amy and the Orphans (Roundabout Theatre Company), This Flat Earth (Playwrights Horizons), and The Year to Come (La Jolla Playhouse). She is writing the book on a number of new musicals from – Queen of Versailles with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, starring Kristin Chenoweth; The Artist, based on the film by the same title directed by Drew McConie. Lindsey Ferrentino is the recipient of the 2016 Kesselring Prize, Laurents/ Hatcher Citation of Excellence, ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize, Paul Newman Drama Award, 2015 Kilroys List, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn, Catalyst Award for Entertainment Industry Excellence, NYU Distinguished Young Alumna Award, nominated for the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, and is the only two-time finalist for the Kendeda Playwriting Prize.
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