Favorite Crayon

Lisa A. Tignor began a broadcasting career at a Huntington West Virginia radio station in 1989. Since that time, she has moved up and down the dial. She moved on to Public Television in the mid-90s. In 2007, she wrote a screenplay that became a semifinalist in the Slamdance Screenwriting Competition. Once bitten by the film bug, she never stopped. She began to volunteer for film festivals and the West Virginia Filmmakers Guild in order to network and learn exactly how to make a film. “Favorite Crayon” is her directorial debut.
She has written for a number of magazines and websites. Highlights of her life include touring with a British rock band, being jumped on by secret service, being banned from Israel, making a disciple of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi lose his cool, writing a cheesy romance novel that was rejected for publication because the main characters didn't want to get married in the end, and in the early 90s trying to convince Bob Woodward to tell her who "DeepThroat" was. (The reality of these events is not nearly as dangerous as one would assume, but they make a good story!) However, her life story isn’t over yet and she still plans to climb the temple of the feathered serpent in Mexico, get arrested while protesting with Martin Sheen, submit a critically acclaimed film to Sundance and
get married in a chapel in Vegas by an Elvis impersonator.
She currently hosts a television program called “Volunteering in West Virginia.”