Biography

Lucy McNulty (she/her) is an actor, playwright, and filmmaker whose work champions diverse, underrepresented voices. Her debut short film, CHICKEN (Edmonton International, ReelAbilities, Micheaux, British Urban Film Festival), which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, has garnered international acclaim, winning Jury’s Choice and the DEAI Award for Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion at the Thomas Edison Film Festival. The film also won a Leo Award, Best Performance at Oska Bright (Brighton, UK), Best Overall Film at the Women’s Comedy Film Festival (Atlanta), Best Script at Santa Barbara ShortFest, and Best International Short at Big Syn (London). CHICKEN has been recognized by the Down Syndrome Resource Foundation, the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, the National Down Syndrome Society and featured in 3.21: Canada’s Down Syndrome Magazine, The LowDOWN: A Down Syndrome Podcast, the CTV Morning Show, AMI’s DisRUPT, the World Down Syndrome Congress (Australia), and the National Down Syndrome Summit (California). It was acquired by CBC. Lucy is the founder of Strange Company Productions, with whom she has produced award-winning content such as Riley Davis’s Attendance (Whistler 2024, Pendance 2025), and soon to hit the festival circuit is Lili Beaudoin and Isabelle Deluces’ At the End starring Avan Jogia (Zombieland), Manon Beaudoin’s The Ballad of Niall McNeil, a short form musical spaghetti-western series written and starring Niall McNeil and Kelly McCormack’s How Brief starring Emmy winning and Golden Globe-nominated Tatianna Maslany. She is a co-founder of DropShock Pictures with whom she produced Markian Tarasiuk’s Hunting Matthew Nichols (Whistler 2024, in competition for Borsos Best Canadian Feature; FilmQuest 2024 (Best Editing, Best Found Footage Film); Blood in The Snow 2024 (Best Directing), Available Light 2025). Lucy is a graduate of Studio 58’s acting conservatory, and a proud Canadian Film Centre Producers’ Lab alumni. Lucy is a recipient of the Sydney J. Risk Foundation Acting Award, a Jessie Richardson Award, and a two-time Leo Award nominee. She is also the President of Wet Ink Collective, a writer-driven initiative supporting women in developing stories for stage and screen.