lindsey addawoo is an award-winning writer/director from Toronto.

Her work is largely in the realm of drama and genre and has screened at film festivals such as American Black Film Festival, Montreal Black Film Festival, and Reelworld Film Festival. 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 (The CW/Netflix/CBC), Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum (PBS/TVO) and Director X’s Robyn Hood (Boat Rocker/Corus).

She is an alumna of BIPOC TV & Film’s inaugural Episodic Drama Writers’ Lab and Showrunner Bootcamp led by showrunner Anthony Q. Farrell (The Office). lindsey was later inducted into the 2022 Warner Bros. Discovery Access x Canadian Academy Writers Program and was a recipient of the Rogers-Black Screen Office (BSO) Script Development Fund in 2023.

Recently, she served as the associate story producer for The Legacy Awards, a live special award show that features performances, awards and tributes honouring both established and emerging Black Canadian talent.

Most days she can be found chasing her chaotic shih-poo, Hodor, or developing cool projects with cool people.