Stewart Thorndike is a writer/director whose debut feature, Lyle, premiered to critical praise at Outfest 2014, where star Gaby Hoffmann received the Grand Jury Prize for Best Actress. She is developing two more female-driven psychological horror films to be part of a trilogy with Lyle: The Stay and Daughter. She earned her MFA in Directing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is a fellow with the San Francisco Film Society's Inaugural Women Filmmaker Fellowship for women in genre.