From Page to World – A Conversation with Tianna Langham, 2011 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellow

By Lisa Loop, Adjunct Faculty

Tianna Langham and her partner Chris Bessounian received the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting last November in Beverly Hills.

Lisa Loop: You spent your formative years in the Northwest. How did you get from there to where you are now?

I moved to Port Townsend from England when I was 12 years old and attended junior and high school there. I feel fortunate to have landed there; it was an incredibly safe, nurturing and creative place to grow up, so full of history and interesting people from all over the country. But being such a tiny town, I was ready to leave and see more of the world after I graduated. I attended the University of Redlands in California during which I studied and explored many different countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Austria, etc.). Continue reading