About

Actor, writer, and director Lindsey Connell was raised in a colourful activist household in Toronto and Montreal. A professional actor in theatre and film since she was nine, Lindsey studied classical theatre acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in England, followed by the Humber School of Comedy Writing and Performance. Her play, Two Doors Twice, premiered at the Toronto Fringe and was selected by SummerWorks for a public reading and workshop. When her script The Bridge won the WWSFF Screenplay Giveaway’s $100,000 of in kind post production funding, she challenged herself to direct her first short film. The following summer, the renamed film The Big 1-0, which she wrote, directed and coproduced, won Best Canadian Short at the Atlantic Film Festival. Determined to make another quickly, she shot her second short, Bare Knuckle Duet, while 8.5 months pregnant. Each film went on to great festival runs -albeit, not always attended by Lindsey. Since having her second child, she has completed two feature film scripts and developed an original television series and several treatments for web series. Her passion for film and to fostering writers led her to the Female Eye Film Festival, where she has been the Script Development Officer for three years. Lindsey is also an avid maker and illustrator. Her successful greeting card and home goods line, Tense and Urgent, can be found online (and in Portland!) She lives in Toronto with her two young(ish) children, Eve and Arlo.