Lindsey Ferrentino
Writer
Lindsey Ferrentino is an american playwright with three world premieres in the 2024 season. In May, she opened The Artist in the UK (co-adapted with Drew McOnie, Theatre Royal Plymouth) and this August, she opened the world premiere of the new musical The Queen of Versailles (book by Lindsey Ferrentino, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham, The Colonial Theater) which will transfer to Broadway in the 2025/2026 season. Her other produced plays include Ugly Lies the Bone (National Theatre, UK, Roundabout Theatre Company, NY, over 100 productions worldwide), Amy
and the Orphans (Roundabout Theatre Company), This Flat Earth (Playwrights Horizons), The Year to Come (La Jolla Playhouse) – among others. Her plays have been translated into Spanish, German, and Portuguese and have been produced across the US, in London, Germany, Spain, and Venezuela.
This winter, Lindsey will direct her first feature film – an adaptation of her play Amy and the Orphans for Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films. She has had various film and television projects including five in development at Netflix and is working with producers including the Obamas’ Higher Ground, 3 Dot Entertainment, Dylan Clark Productions, and Defiant by Nature. Most recently announced, Lindsey is writing Playboy for Sony, adapting a best-selling novel by Rebecca Yarros for Netflix, and adapting her play Ugly Lies the Bone into a feature for Marielle Heller’s company, directed by Heidi Ewing.
Lindsey is the recipient of The Arc’s Prize for Entertainment Industry Excellence for her writing centred on disability inclusion. Other prizes include: the Kesserling, ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize, Paul Newman Drama Award, Laurents/ Hatcher Award, NYU Distinguished Alumna Award, and Hunter College’s 40 Under
40 Distinguished Alumna. Lindsey studied at NYU, Hunter College, and the Yale School of Drama (David Geffen School of Drama).