479. Want to get your ideas to Broadway, London or the movies? Critically acclaimed playwright, Lindsey Ferrentino, explains how she does it.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Questrial; color: black; background: white; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> 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”. </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Questrial; color: black; background: white; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Questrial; color: black; background: white; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> 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."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Questrial; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> <span style="background: white;"> </span><br /> <span style="background: white;">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). </span><br /> <br /> <span style="background: white;">She is writing the book on a number of new musicals from – </span></span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;