Adriana Maggs

Adriana Maggs

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BiographyAdriana Maggs is a Canadian film and television director, writer, and producer. She is best known for writing and directing the award winning films, Goalie, starring Mark O'Brien, and Grown Up Movie Star, starring Tatiana Maslany, which was nominated for the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival.

Maggs co-directed Hey Lady! alongside Sarah Polley, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and directed season two of the popular web series How to Buy a Baby. She has worked as both a writer and producer on Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, Pretty Hard Cases, and Coroner, for which she was nominated in Best Writing, Drama Series at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards, among others.

In 2021, she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction, Web Program or Series for Hey Lady!, and was a nominee in the same category the previous year for How to Buy a Baby. She was a Genie Award nominee for Best Screenplay at the 31st Genie Awards in 2011 for Grown Up Movie Star, and was a co-winner of the Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series at the 24th Gemini Awards in 2009 for Three Chords from the Truth.

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