Hannah Cheesman

Hannah is a director and a Canadian Screen Award-nominated writer and actor, recognized as a TIFF Emerging Canadian Filmmaker and a Playback 5 to Watch. Her work spans feature films, shorts, television and commercials, and has screened at Cannes, Palm Springs, and TIFF. Hannah's feature "The Boathouse" won Grand Prize at Rhode Island International Film Festival 2021, and Best Feature Thriller at San Diego international Film Festival 2021. Her most recent short, "Succor", premiered at TIFF 2020. Hannah also directed Lifetime Film "Caught in his Web", executive-produced by Whoopi Goldberg and starring Garcelle Beauvais. She has directed commercial campaigns for The Raptors, The Blue Jays, Scotiabank, TD bank, and more. Hannah is also the co-creator, writer and producer of "Whatever, Linda", a landmark web series that has won 20 awards to date - including the inaugural Canneseries In Development competition at MIPtv - and is being adapted into an hourlong cable series with Bell Crave, EP'ed by Graeme Manson (Snowpiercer, Orphan Black). As a writer, Hannah has written on Workin' Moms (Netflix), Find Me in Paris (Hulu) and in the writers room of Orphan Black. As an actor, Hannah's credits include Airiam on Star Trek: Discovery and Tina Holbridge on Schitt's Creek.