Lindsey Ferrentino, the author of Ugly Lies the Bone, is both a playwright and a screenwriter. Her work is known for having “a muscular empathy which seeks to enter the minds of people for whom life is often a struggle of heroic proportions” (New York Times). She holds a B.F.A. from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has two M.F.A.'s in playwriting from Hunter College and The Yale School of Drama. Currently, Lindsey is under commission from Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, and South Coast Rep.
Plays/Musicals
The Artist (book, 2023)
Queen of Versailles (book, 2023)
This Flat Earth (2019)
Amy and the Orphans (2018)
The Year to Come (2018)
Ugly Lies the Bone (2016)
Films
Amy and the Orphans (in development)
Not Fade Away (in development)
Awards
ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize (2016)
Kesselring Prize (2016)
Laurents/Hatcher Citation of Excellence (2016)
Paul Newman Drama Award (2016)
Kilroys List (2015)
Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Catalyst Award for Entertainment Industry Excellence (2015)
NYU Distinguished Young Alumna Award (2015)
Nominated for the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award (2015)
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