Lia Langworthy
Associate Professor
Department: School of Image Arts
Discipline: Film & Media Arts
Email: lia.langworthy@torontomu.ca
Education: BS (University of California, Berkeley), MFA (University of California, Riverside)
Discipline: Film & Media Arts
Areas of Expertise:
- Black Representation in Media
- Film & Television Writing
- Historical Storytelling
- Personal Non-Fiction
- Race & Identity in Screen Media
- Screenwriting
Dr. Lia Langworthy is a published essayist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and educator. She has published essays in Mutha Magazine, Angel鈥檚 Flight Literary West, and Writers Resist. She has written for CBS (Young and the Restless), Showtime (Soul Food), FX (The Shield), TvOne (Media) and ABC (General Hospital). She has appeared in Rogue Theatre鈥檚 writers-who-read series, Rant & Rave, sharing her original narrative non-fiction. She appeared in Survivors, a Stand Up 2 Cancer short film shot by Errol Morris. In 2018, her script, Sitting Pretty, was a semi-finalist for Universal鈥檚 Writing Program, and her historical bio-pic, Mary+Flo, was a semi-finalist for Ron Howard鈥檚 Imagine Impact. Dr. Langworthy also serves as a script advisor for Middlebury College鈥檚 Screenplay Lab. She has taught screenwriting for UCLA鈥檚 Writing Program and the American Film Institute, and joined 果酱视频 in 2019. Dr. Langworthy is also a native Californian. She attended UC Berkeley (BS) and UC Riverside (MFA).
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