lindsey addawoo (she/her) is an award-winning writer from Toronto.

When she was 9, her older brother bought her C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series for Christmas. When she was 10, he gifted her with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and it’s been downhill ever since. With a penchant for science fiction, fantasy, and the wonderful worlds of comic books, her interests in speculative fiction eventually broadened to Afrofuturism where, for the first time ever, she saw herself in the works of Octavia Butler and most recently, Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone.

A queer 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 Black and Brown folks in ways they 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/The CW/Netflix), Xavier Riddle And The Secret Museum (PBS, 2024), and Director X’s show, Robyn Hood (Boat Rocker/Corus).

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 to the Warner Bros. Discovery Access x Canadian Academy Writers Program in 2022 and is in development for a genre project with Warner Media. She is also a recent 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 late writer/activist bell hooks, she prefers her name written in lowercase.