Heroine City champions women in history in all their glorious shapes and forms, efforts errors and eras.
Scholarly research underpins the narratives we highlight, using modern media to tell inclusive stories that demand to be heard in exciting ways. It is a place built on true stories.
And we need YOU to help create those bricks, shape the world we see and build Heroine City around us.
Are you a heritage site or organisation that would like to create something special for your supporters? Please, get in touch.
Have an exciting project that we could collaborate on? Please, drop us a line.
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Heroine City champions women in history in all their glorious shapes and forms, efforts errors and eras.
Scholarly research underpins the narratives we highlight, using modern mediums to tell inclusive stories that demand to be heard in exciting ways. It is a place built on true stories.
And we need YOU to help create those bricks, shape the world we see and build Heroine City around us.
Are you a heritage site or organisation that would like to create something special for your supporters? Please, get in touch.
Have an exciting project that we could collaborate on? Please, drop us a line.
Want to learn about fascinating women in history? Sign up for our newsletter below and follow us here.
Founding Director
Lynsey Shaw
From chart-topping bands to UK Arenas, Radio One Roadshows, TV shows and Hyde Park. Lynsey Shaw has performed in many guises. Moving to Los Angeles in 2010 her first US gig was singing the British National Anthem at the Honda Stadium to a 17,000-person crowd and millions on HBO. While in LA, Lynsey produced UK docu-reality show, Nadia Goes to Hollywood (TV3, 2014), and The Courier (2014), a short written and directed by J. Mackye Gruber (The Butterfly Effect).
Now back in the UK, Lynsey completed a stint at RADA, established Impossible Things Entertainment and gained an honours film degree. In 2020, her micro-short, Charlie’s 2020 Vision won ‘Best Student Short’ at the Berlin Short Film Festival, and she became a semi-finalist in the London Mayor’s Entrepreneurial Scheme. During the pandemic she created Once Upon a Crime, an immersive, digital whodunnit that featured in the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Lynsey was a semi-finalist pitching Heroine City at Wembley for the 2021 Santander Entrepreneur Awards and recently won the AccelerateHER 2022 Barclays Eagle Labs Award for Disruptive Innovation.
Following a distinction for her MA in Cultural Heritage, Lynsey is focussing on exciting new multimedia commissions for Kenwood House, South Holland council and developing exciting Heroine City television projects, with a PhD proposal in the pipeline.
Writer – Producer - Production Manager
Mariana Ortiz
Mariana and Lynsey met while studying master’s degrees at University of Roehampton and instantly hit it off recognising in each other their perpetual creativity and mutual search for outlets for their wild imaginations.
Mariana Ortiz, was born in México City and graduated as a Producer and Film Director in 2018. That same year she joined film boutique company Cineburo as their Operations Manager. Later, in 2020 she became a Production Controller and Wrap Manager for Mexico’s #1 service production company, The Lift. Currently residing in London after finishing her master’s in Screenwriting, she is a Creative Manager in cultural affairs for the UK Mexican Embassy, and chief collaborator as a Creative and Project Manager in Heroine City.
