about me

Molly McGlynn is a writer and director who was born in Montreal and grew up in the United States. She currently lives in Los Angeles, although Toronto will always be home.

Molly graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario with a BA(H) in Film Studies and has a graduate certificate from Humber College in Writing & Producing for Television. She is an alumni of the Cineplex Entertainment Film Program Writers’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre, the Reykjavik International Film Festival Talent Lab, the Samsung TIFF Emerging Director programme and was selected as one of twelve writer/directors nationally selected for TIFF Studio. In January 2019, she won the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association for her first feature film, Mary Goes Round, starring Aya Cash and Sara Waisglass.

Mary Goes Round, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017 and has screened at dozens of film festivals and won multiple awards, including the Panavision Independent Cinema Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the Vail Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at the Annapolis Film Festival. The film was nominated by the Directors’ Guild of Canada for awards in Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film and Best Editing in a Feature Film.

Selected television credits include Workin’ Moms, The Wonder Years, Grace and Frankie and The Big Door Prize. Additionally, she was the producing director on Season 2 of Bless This Mess. 

Her second feature film, Fitting In, (fka Bloody Hell), starring Maddie Ziegler and Emily Hampshire, had its World Premiere at SXSW in the Narrative Spotlight section in March 2023. Its International Premiere was at the prestigious Deauville American Film Festival and its Canadian premiere was at the Toronto International Film Festival. It won Best Canadian Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival and was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film by the Directors Guild of Canada.

It will be released theatrically in the US (Blue Fox Entertainment) and Canada (Elevation Pictures) in February 2024.