S2; EP 5 -- Lindsey Ferrentino: The Fear of 13

Where does a playwright start from? Would a playwright identify as
a multi-hyphenate if they span genre, style, and medium of writing?
How does a playwright break into both Broadway and the West End?
Lindsey Ferrentino is one of our contemporary prolific voices in
playwriting and she’s full of inspiring nuggets that will get
anyone to put their ideas on paper.  In this episode we also
discuss her upcoming play THE FEAR OF 13. Based on the
extraordinary true story of Nick Yarris, Academy Award winner
Adrien Brody makes his London theatre debut at the Donmar Warehouse
in the world premiere of THE FEAR OF 13; a new play by Lindsey
Ferrentino (Ugly Lies the Bone) directed by Justin Martin (Prima
Facie).  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 McConie, Theatre Royal
Plymouth,) and this August, she will premiere 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). Her other produced plays include
Ugly Lies the Bone (The Lyttleton - 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 various film projects
in development at Netflix and Sony Pictures — with producers
including Higher Ground, 3 Dot Entertainment, Dylan Clark
Productions, Defiant by Nature. Lindsey is the recipient of The
Arc’s prize for Entertainment Industry Excellence for her writing
centered 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 is
repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Felker & Associates. You
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