Lydia Nightingale

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Actor, Dramaturge and Screenwriter

Albany, New York

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October 2017

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About Lydia

Lydia is an actor, playwright, screenwriter, and dramaturge currently living in upstate NY. She has performed in plays and musicals all over and beyond the NYS Capital District, from Albany and Latham to New Paltz and Rhinebeck, as well as in several independent films. She also played a sheep, a doll, and the Virgin Mary (twice) in various Episcopalian Christmas pageants.

Lydia's plays have been presented in Albany, New Paltz, and most recently in New York City. Her one-act "Party Talk" was read at the Barrow Group Theatre in Manhattan in 2016; her WWII play "Adele in Berlin" placed as a finalist in the Strawberry One-Act Festival in Harlem in 2015, and her WWII play "Tinted Red" placed as a finalist for the Women in Theatre Program's 2016 Jane Chambers Award. This annual award recognizes plays created by women that present a feminist perspective and contain significant opportunities for female performers. She kinda likes writing about women and the 1940s, as you might be able to tell. Oh, and parties.

Lydia just finished drafts of her first two screenplays, "Mortal Enemies: An Alien Love Story" and "A Good Time Call". It turns out screenwriting is really fun! She'd do it all the time if you didn't have to go get the movies MADE as well. Geez. Lydia’s primary mission as an artist is to produce engaging and instructive pieces that expose audiences to diverse perspectives in history, particularly those of women. And sometimes an alien makes it in there.

Unique traits: Golden gravity-defying hair, arresting cerulean eyes, a personality akin to cream soda (sweet, bubbly, and always leaving you wanting more), heaps of compassion for her fellow humans, and an imagination more active than the Executive Branch's Twitter account (with 200% less spite)!

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 9"

Weight:
200

Body type:
Average

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Blonde

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

Certifications

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Videos

Lydia Nightingale - "Take Me or Leave Me" from RENT

"Good Time": A Play in One Very Short Act

Loglines

A Good Time Call Budget: $0 - $100K | Independent ⋄ Comedy Two lonely people connect over some bathroom graffiti. “For a good time, call…”
Mortal Enemies: An Alien Love Story Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Sci-fi Josie Andrews, a smart-mouthed alien scout and deadly mercenary, is on a mission to help her race destroy humanity. While on Nantucket, she runs afoul of another alien named Jazz Matteson with a conflicting mission- to save the worthless humans- and some equally deadly charm. Needless to say, things get very complicated very quickly.

Credits

The Way Forward (2017)
Film by Compass Pictures/Roman Jaquez Susan A psychologist invites seven strangers to his dining room and challenges them to forgive their fathers.
Grid Defense (2016)
Film by DR Productions/Jacob Brode Dr. Angie Harris When evil forces rise up to once again threaten the near-future metropolis of Omega City, the all-powerful Enetron Corporation recruits three teens to become a brand new team of heroes…the PR: Grid Defense!
#ITSOKTOSPEAKOUT (2015)
Series by Compass Pictures/Roman Jaquez Instructor A series of short instructional videos for students on how to keep themselves safe from sexual assault on college campuses. Now used privately in universities all over the United States.
Dog Tags (2012)
Film by Lasher Productions/Nathaniel Smith Sue ”Dog Tags” follows a young street boy named Jamal on his quest for salvation through the drug, sex, and rock n’ roll culture of New York City.
Three Sisters (2011)
Theater by SUNY New Paltz/Frank Trezza Olga SUNY New Paltz's acclaimed 2011 production of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters", performed in Parker Theatre.
Reunion: A Musical Epic in Miniature (2007)
Theater by NYSTI/Ron Holgate Hometown Girl A traveling company of 19th Century actors weaves a 2-act musical epic of the fight to save the Union, fusing period songs, stories and images in a unique stage narrative of the struggle to preserve the Union in the American Civil War.