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 →