Profile Details
- Country: Canada
- Province/State: Ontario
- City: Toronto/Mississauga
- How do you Identify?: She/Her
- Experience Level: Mid-Career
- Field of Work: Fiction/Scripted, Drama Series, Kids, Animation, and Documentary
- Union: WGC
- Rep: Sohrab Merchant - The Characters Talent Agency
- Interested In: TV Writing Room, Directing Film/Digital for Hire, and Developing my own Film/TV/Digital Material
- Recent Credits: TV/Film Writer: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum (PBSKids/TVOKids), Robyn Hood (Global TV), Coroner (CBC), Promise Me (OYA). Story Coordinator: Coroner, Good Witch, Street Legal. Director: Shades (OAC/TAC), Queen of Hearts (BravoFACT)
- Favourite Movies: Creed, Edward Scissorhands, Iron Giant, Fight Club, Pariah, Parasite, Joker, Get Out, Shutter Island, Donnie Darko, Pursuit of Happyness, Moonlight, The Prince of Egypt, The Karate Kid
- Favourite TV Shows: I May Destroy You, Mr. Robot, Stranger Things, Insecure, The Witcher, Watchmen, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul
- Authorized to work in the USA?: No
- Contact Information: sohrab@thecharacters.com
- Link: http://www.lindseyaddawoo.com/
- Link 2: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8784156/
Bio
lindsey addawoo (she/her) is a CSA-nominated writer from the Greater Toronto Area.
A storyteller of Ghanaian & Indo-Guyanese descent, her work is largely in the realm of drama and genre, exploring themes of resiliency and triumph in the face of exploitation. Her stories often center on marginalized folks in ways that are not commonly seen.
Her first short film, Queen Of Hearts (2018), won the 2017 Inside Out Film Festival BravoFACT pitch award. She co-wrote Promise Me (2020), a short film that won the Standout Short Film Writer Award at Reelworld Film Festival, where she was also a Reelworld E20 participant.
Her credits include Street Legal (CBC), Coroner (CBC), Xavier Riddle And The Secret Museum (PBS), and Robyn Hood (Boat Rocker/Corus). Most recently, she was the Associate Story Producer on The Legacy Awards, an award show celebrating Black Canadian excellence and achievements in culture, community, and leadership.
She is an alumna of BlackWomenFilm! Canada (2016), BIPOC TV & Film’s inaugural Episodic Drama Writers’ Lab (2021) and Showrunner Bootcamp (2022). lindsey was inducted into the Warner Bros. Discovery Access x Canadian Academy Writers Program in 2022 and was a recipient of the Rogers-BSO Script Development Fund through the Black Screen Office (BSO) and the Canadian Independent Screen Fund (CISF).
lindsey holds a BA in media production from Toronto Metropolitan University (PKA Ryerson University). Most days she can be found chasing her chaotic shih-poo, Hodor, or developing cool projects with cool people.
In honour of the late writer/activist bell hooks, she prefers her name written in lowercase.