lindsey addawoo (she/her) is a Canadian Screen Award-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. She is co-writer and co-director of Shades (2025), a short documentary about colourism in the Black community.

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 currently a participant in Realness Institute’s AuthenticA Series Lab. She 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) in 2023.

lindsey holds a BA in media production from Toronto Metropolitan 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.