Lindsay Carpenter

Playwright

Program:
MFA Playwrights Workshop

Lindsay Carpenter is a playwright and director based in New York and Boston. Her play "Our Black Death: Plagues, Turnips, and Other Romantic Gestures" was produced by Unicorn Theatre and Taffety Punk. She is a Princess Grace Award semi-finalist, Goldberg Prize finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, and Kennedy Center ACTF National Undergraduate Playwriting Award winner. In 2020, she graduated with an MFA from NYU Tisch's Dramatic Writing Program. She was a staff writer on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) web series “Amours d’occasion” (IFP 2019 Web Drama Series winner, 2020 Best Web Series & Honorable Mention: Drama LA Film Awards, Prix Numix 2020 Webseries Fiction finalist, and CANNESERIES Short Form Competition 2020 Nominee). She is a co-founder of Ghost Ship Murder Mysteries (www.ghostshipmurdermysteries.com), which combines interactive theatre with role playing games.