Lynda Reiss is an accomplished filmmaker with over three decades of experience in the industry. Her diverse career spans directing, production design, and art direction. Notable works include being Property Master on TV shows such as Stranger Things, and True Detective, and films including American History X and Oscar winner American Beauty.

Reiss transitioned in 2018 to directing and writing, earning recognition and multiple awards for her short films Ready to Go, Lancaster Park and Perfect Match.  

She is in post-production on her debut feature film YOYOs, and in development on her second, an elevated A24 style horror thriller.  Moonlight and Mayhem, the historical spy series she has co-written is repped by WGM Atlantic in London, and she is in development with two other writers on a period project set in the Docks of Liverpool.

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‘The complexities of the worlds we create are largely the result of Lynda’s talents and her inherent, poetic understanding of story.’

Nic Pizzolatto - Creator - True Detective

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‘She has an innate ability for storytelling’

Lynda Obst - Producer

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‘Lynda has fantastic taste and is amazingly creative. Every choice she makes goes on the screen and is crucial to the story.”

Aida Rodgers - EP - Barry, Perry Mason, True Detective