Lynn Shelton Dies: ‘Humpday,’ ‘GLOW,’ ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Director Was 54

Author, director, producer, actor, and editor Lynn Shelton handed away on Friday, May 15 on the age of 54 in Los Angeles as a result of a beforehand unidentified blood dysfunction. Shelton was among the many main voices of American impartial movie, engaged on all sides of the digicam in such movies as “Humpday,” “Your Sister’s Sister,” “Outside In,” ” Little Fires Everywhere” and “Sword of Trust.”

She was additionally a prolific tv director on tv collection equivalent to “Mad Men,” “GLOW,” and “Little Fires Everywhere.” IndieWire recently interviewed Shelton, alongside along with her artistic and romantic companion Marc Maron, about her upcoming initiatives.

“I’ve some terrible information. Lynn handed away final evening. She collapsed yesterday morning after having been unwell for per week,” Marc Maron mentioned in an announcement. “There was a beforehand unknown, underlying situation. It was not COVID-19. The medical doctors couldn’t save her. They tried. Onerous.

“I cherished her very a lot as I do know a lot of you probably did as nicely. It’s devastating. I’m leveled, heartbroken and in full shock and don’t actually know how one can transfer ahead on this second. I wanted you all to know. I don’t know a few of you. Some I do. I’m simply attempting to let the individuals who had been necessary to her know.

“She was an attractive, form, loving, charismatic artist. Her spirit was pure pleasure. She made me glad. I made her glad. We had been glad. I made her snicker on a regular basis. We laughed lots. We had been beginning a life collectively. I actually can’t imagine what is going on,” he mentioned. “This can be a horrendous, unhappy loss.”

Shelton’s movie profession started on the Slamdance Movie Pageant in 2006 with “We Go Way Again,” which earned the Grand Jury Prize, adopted by “My Easy Brilliance,” which premiered at SXSW in 2018. “Humpday,” which premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant in 2009, earned acclaim and was picked up by Magnolia Footage for distribution. The film went on to play the Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight, and earned the John Cassavetes Unbiased Spirit Award in 2010. Her different movies additionally embrace “Laggies,” and “Sensitive Feely.” Shelton has additionally labored behind the digicam extensively within the tv area, most not too long ago helming 4 episodes of the hit Hulu miniseries “Little Fires Everywhere,” the suburban melodrama based mostly on the novel by Celeste Ng, and has directed for different collection together with “The Morning Present,” “Dickinson,” “A.P. Bio,” “Love,” “Recent off the Boat,” “Informal,” “New Girl,” “Little Fires Everywhere” and “The Good Place.”

She was born August 27, 1965, in Oberlin, Ohio and she or he grew up in Seattle. After highschool, Shelton attended Oberlin School in Ohio after which the College of Washington Faculty of Drama. She then moved to New York and adopted the Grasp’s of Positive Arts program in pictures and associated media on the Faculty of Visible Arts in Manhattan.

Lynn Shelton is survived by her son Milo Seal, her husband of a few years Kevin Seal, her mother and father Wendy and Alan Roedell, and David “Mac” Shelton and Frauke Rynd. She can also be survived by her brothers David Shelton, Robert Rynd and sister Tanya Rynd, in addition to Maron, with whom she spent the final yr of her life.