Adriana Maggs

Adriana Maggs is a Canadian film and television director, writer, and producer. She is best known for writing and directing the award winning films, Goalie ^[1], starring Mark O'Brien, and Grown Up Movie Star ^[2], starring Tatiana Maslany, which was nominated for the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival ^[3].

Maggs co-directed Hey Lady! ^[4] alongside Sarah Polley, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival^[5], and directed season two of the popular web series How to Buy a Baby.^[6]. She has worked as both a writer and producer on Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent ^[7], Pretty Hard Cases ^[7], and Coroner ^[7], for which she was nominated in Best Writing, Drama Series at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards^[8], among others.

In 2021, she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction, Web Program or Series for Hey Lady! ^[9], and was a nominee in the same category the previous year for How to Buy a Baby ^[10]. She was a Genie Award nominee for Best Screenplay at the 31st Genie Awards in 2011 for Grown Up Movie Star,^[11] 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.^[12]