Molly McGlynn is a Canadian-born writer, director and producer in Los Angeles with Irish roots.
Her first feature film, 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. In January 2019, she won the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize from the
Toronto Film Critics Association which recognizes an emerging Canadian talent who is positively affecting the direction of
Canadian cinema.
Selected television credits include Workin’ Moms (CBC/Netflix), The Wonder Years (ABC/Hulu), Grownish (Freeform),
Grace and Frankie (Netflix) and The Big Door Prize (Apple). Additionally, she was the producing director on Season 2 of
Bless This Mess. Most recently she served as an Executive Producer and directed all six episodes of the forthcoming
series Irish Blood (Acorn/AMC) starring Alicia Silverstone.
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
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Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival and was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in
Feature Film by the Directors Guild of Canada. In 2025, Fitting In was nominated for a GLAAD award for Outstanding Film
– Limited Theatrical Release.
Fitting In was released theatrically in the US (Blue Fox Entertainment) and Canada (Elevation Pictures) in February 2024
and is available in the UK and Ireland in September 2024. It is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.