Lindsey Middleton is a Canadian Screen Award nominee. Lindsey is best known for playing Vanessa and co-producing the internationally award-winning web series, Out With Dad, where she won two Indie Series Awards for Best Supporting Actress, and a IAWTV Award for Best Female Performance in a Drama. Lindsey has toured theatre across Canada and Europe and performed in over 50 productions.
As a writer, Lindsey is one of the co-creators of the Roku Channel show Just Hysterics, a collective of female-forward comedy sketches, that has been recognized at both Stareable Fest and TO WebFest. Lindsey also co-wrote Unmute and I Love You and It Hurts with Theatre of the Beat; both pieces were commissioned by Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region and her first play Session which premiered at the Paprika Festival. Lindsey is currently writing a new TV show all about her days showing cows at local fairs as well as writing her first novel about her travels to over 30 countries before turning 30.
As a director, Lindsey has Associate Directed Legally Blonde: The Musical for Hart House Theatre, and Pippin for Theatre Sheridanas well as Best Kept Secret, the 400 person immersive event that marked the grand opening for the Anndore Hotel in downtown Toronto.
Lindsey is a graduate of the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College Theatre and Drama Studies Program. She was a co-founder of Theatre By Committee, a collective of Toronto-based theatre artists creating contemporary work in found spaces from 2014 – 2019. She has worked as a puppeteer both on film and under black light and is also the co-creator of HappyHer, a documentary web series focused on sharing women’s stories about happiness from all over the world.
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