“Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Lindsay Brooke Davis fell in love with the power of language as an English student at Cornell University, where she found comfort in the works of Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Shakespeare, artists who helped her understand that writing, like acting, is an act of radical exposure.
Across two decades in New York, she took that instinct in every direction.
As a playwright, she has written, produced, and created original works on New York stages since 2011 — earning Best Play awards at the Richmond Shepard New Works Festival and John Chatterton's Short Play Lab Festival, a Midtown International Theater Festival selection, and a Best Play nomination at the Strawberry One Act Festival. Her plays are sharp, relatable, and romantic yet unsentimental: a sex therapist and an accountant meet foam rolling at the gym; a single woman goes on multiple terrible dates in one night; a gay actor tries to break type and find love in New York City. She writes with humor and depth about desire, recovery, and the beautiful absurdity of being human.
Now, with a Certification in Screenwriting from NYU Tisch, Lindsay is making the pivot to the screen. As a SAG-AFTRA actress with years of on-set experience in television and film, she understands story from both sides of the camera — and that dual fluency is exactly what she brings to her work as a screenwriter, script consultant and script doctor. She has worked with Luminetik Productions in that capacity, and is currently adapting one of her own plays for the screen. Lindsay is now available for script doctoring, story consulting, and screenwriting assignments.
A member of BMI, she has written and released eight original singles amassing over 250,000 streams on Spotify, produced in collaboration with LA-based producer KI. Lindsay used to perform her poetry across the city — at bars, black box theaters, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe — and that work led her directly to songwriting. The page and the song have always been the same impulse: feel the emotions, find the truth, and say it all out loud. Express yourself.
As a journalist, she has reported, reviewed, and interviewed across some of the most respected outlets in culture and travel. At BBC America's Anglophenia and The Brit List, she conducted on-camera interviews at SXSW and on red carpets — with musicians including Mark Ronson, Peter Frampton, Ben Howard, and Michael Kiwanuka, and cultural figures including Colin Quinn and Kim Kardashian. Her travel features for BBC Travel took readers inside literary Tuscany and musical Philadelphia. Her arts criticism — spanning Broadway, Off-Broadway, and beyond — has appeared in The Broadway Blog, 1 Minute Critic, Edge Media Network, Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, and LA Confidential. She is a current contributor to 1 Minute Critic, covering Broadway and Off-Broadway with the perspective of someone who has spent her career on both sides of the footlights.
Her poetry — performed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and still largely unpublished — is where all of it lives together: the athlete and the actress, the traveler and the critic, the woman who has been through things and come out the other side with something worth saying.
Lindsay is available for screenwriting, script doctoring, story consulting, playwriting commissions, feature assignments, and theater criticism. As a songwriter, she is available as a topliner, song consultant, and collaborator for everything from pop music to musicals.
Screen Writing
NYU Tisch · Script Doctor · Story Consultant
Lindsay holds a Certification in Screenwriting from NYU Tisch and is bringing her stage instincts to the screen — where her years as a working film and television actress give her a structural advantage most writers don't have. She knows what plays in a close-up, what a production can actually shoot, and where a script loses the room
She has worked as a script doctor and story consultant for Luminetik Productions, and is currently adapting one of her own award-winning plays for film. She is available for:
Script doctoring and punch-up
Story consulting and structural notes
Original screenwriting commissions
Stage-to-screen adaptation
Songwriting & Poetry
Member of BMI
A selection of song lyrics and poems available upon request.
Plays
Cornell BA in English Literature · Playwright · Producer/Director
"Suspended" Winner, Best Play Award — Richmond Shepard New Works Festival Manhattan Repertory Theatre Festival of Short Plays
"Techno & Tarot" Winner, Best Play — John Chatterton's Short Play Lab Festival Selection, Disjointed Love Shorts — Alchemical Theater
"Brattleboro" Selection — Midtown International Theater Festival Nominated, Best Play — Strawberry One Act Festival
"The Foam Roller Play" Two NYC productions. A sex therapist and an accountant meet on the mat while foam rolling at the gym. It goes from there.
"Bad Dates in the City" Presented at TADA Theater and LES Arts Festival. A single woman goes on multiple dates in one night. They are all bad. Comedy ensues.
"The Vince Vegina Monologues" A comedy about a gay actor trying to break type and find love in NYC. Currently on Vimeo, with future episodes in development.
"The Rehab Play" A fresh, comedic take on recovery with improvised elements. Co-written with Brian Patrick Murphy at the LAByrinth Theatre Intensive Ensemble Workshop.
"Corporate Melody" Selection — Theater for the New City LES Arts Festival
Journalism
Culture Writer · Critic · Investigative Reporter
Current contributor — 1 Minute Critic (Broadway & Off-Broadway) Recent reviews include Data, Oh, Mary!, Liberation, Romy & Michele: The Musical, Am I Roxie?, and The Reservoir.
The Broadway Blog (extensive archive, 2012–present)
Broadway reviews: Little Shop of Horrors · The New One (Mike Birbiglia) · Hedwig and the Angry Inch · The Testament of Mary · Ann · Heathers: The Musical · Lady Day · After Midnight · A Time to Kill · The Snow Geese · The Realistic Joneses
Off-Broadway reviews & features: Slave Play · Charm · Sontag Reborn · The Library · Love's Labour's Lost (The Public) · The Clearing · The Fight · The Jacksonian · Drama Beyond Ibsen · FringeNYC 2016 Roundup · and more
Interview: Theresa Rebeck on her directorial feature debut (2019)
Music & Culture Journalism
BBC America — Anglophenia & The Brit List On-camera interviews: Ben Howard, The Staves, Clock Opera (SXSW 2012) · Peter Frampton · Michael Kiwanuka · Mark Ronson · Colin Quinn · Kim Kardashian & Piers Morgan Features: Top 40 British Songs of 2010 · Top 10 John Lennon Songs · An American's Guide to Glastonbury
Teen Vogue — Interview: Daya on being a 17-year-old in the music industry (2016)
Travel Writing
BBC Travel — Literary Tuscany · Musical Philadelphia Edge Media Network — 72 Hours in Northern Ireland · Northern Ireland's Seafood Scene · Queer-Friendly Quebec City · Fit and Fierce: 5 Destinations to Work It Out ParkFast — 5 Presidents' Day Destinations in New Jersey
Investigative & Feature Journalism
Edge Media Network — How LGBTQ Women and Allies Are Reshaping Pro Sports (2021) New York Magazine · LA Confidential Magazine · Project Eve — contributor