Lia Langworthy

Dr. Lia Langworthy is a published essayist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and educator. She has published essays in Mutha Magazine, Angel’s 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’s 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’s Writing Program, and her historical bio-pic, Mary+Flo, was a semi-finalist for Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact. Dr. Langworthy also serves as a script advisor for Middlebury College’s Screenplay Lab. She has taught screenwriting for UCLA’s Writing Program and the American Film Institute, and joined Toronto Metropolitan University in 2019. Dr. Langworthy is also a native Californian. She attended UC Berkeley (BS) and UC Riverside (MFA).