[1] She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts with First Class honours.
[6] Her directing credits include feature documentary Lost and Sound (SXSW, 2012),[7] short documentary Close Your Eyes And Look At Me (True/False, 2009) and Jackie Kay: One Person Two Names, commissioned for Tate Britain's Queer British Art 2017.
[8] For directing Lost and Sound she was nominated Best New UK Filmmaker at Open City Docs and Best Female-Directed Film at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
[21] Dryden is a founding member of Queer Producers Collective and FWD-DOC, a recent Filmmaker-In-Residence at Jacob Burns Film Center in New York, and an artist-in-residence at Somerset House Studios.
She frequently consults, mentors, speaks on panels and offers masterclasses, including at Sheffield Doc/Fest and Women In Film & Television.