Lindsey Ferrentino

In-demand playwright and screenwriter Lindsey Ferrentino graduated from Hunter College with an MFA in Playwriting in 2013. Her plays include Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company and The National Theatre, UK), the barrier breaking Amy and the Orphans (Roundabout Theatre Company), This Flat Earth (Playwrights Horizons), and The Year to Come (La Jolla Playhouse).

Ferrentino came to Hunter to study with playwright Tina Howe. “Hunter was the only program that took into consideration that students might need to work to support themselves. It was affordable and allowed you to have a job, go to school, and train with this incredibly talented feminist playwright,” Ferrentino said. “I had two years of focused time with incredible teachers, where I was able to do a deep dive creatively into my own voice.”

Ferrentino is the recipient of a Kesselring Prize, a Laurents/Hatcher Citation of Excellence, the ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize, a Paul Newman Drama Award, and the Kilroys List. She is currently under commission from Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, and South Coast Rep. She holds a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in addition to her MFA from Hunter.