Biography
Lindsay Torrey is an adjunct faculty member at the USC School of the Dramatic Arts. She is a multi-hyphenate creator who has taught acting, movement and devising at Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University and AMDA College of Performing Arts, among others. She believes in building strong creative ensembles, and she specializes in movement-based acting training.
Lindsay has worked as a character movement specialist, movement director and intimacy coordinator on several feature films and theater projects, most recently Switch & Bait and Broken Bird with Catalyst Studios.
As an actor and deviser, she has performed and workshopped new plays with Polybe + Seats, Target Margin, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Clarence Brown Theater and others. Acting TV credits include The Sinner, The Unusualist, Blue Bloods and Royal Pains. Most recently, she produced the short film Bye Bye Barbarito for executive producer NALIP (National Association for Latina Independent Producers) and the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity. She was on the producing team for the feature action film Switch & Bait with director Michelle Salcedo.
In the summer of 2023, she produced and performed in the LA premiere of The Catastrophe Club, the first in a series of new site-specific plays and community events centering the climate emergency conversation. She is a co-producer of The Closing the Distance Project, a member of The National Alliance of Acting Teachers and proud volunteer with The 52nd Street Project in NYC’s Hell’s Kitchen.
A native New Yorker, Lindsay received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in Acting from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.