ABOUT

Raised in the diverse DMV area, writer-director Megan Whitham lived in Dublin, Ireland while earning her B.A. in English Literature and Film Studies from Trinity College Dublin before settling (as much as a traveller can) in Los Angeles, where she earned her M.F.A. in Film and TV Production (Specialization: Directing Fiction) from Loyola Marymount University. Whitham’s works predominately explore marginalized people’s experiences, particularly those of women, queer people, and people with disabilities like herself, through a combination of social and psychological realism, as she firmly believes thoughtful, understanding representations of diversity begets positive social change. She is currently directing a short film adaptation of the end of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Mrs. Dalloway, as well as co-writing a short drama about Korean-American sisters from an abusive home for the LMU Sony Social Impact Lab.