Biography
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Antoinette was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. From a very young age, she began practicing her creativity with music, art, and writing. She attended conservative Catholic schools from kindergarten through high school, and during those years developed a passion for comedy and theatre, producing her own plays at only eight years old.

Antoinette attended Penn State University starting as a biology major. She quickly realized that her passion wasn’t in science but in the arts, so she switched her major to new media studies in her second year. During her senior year, she landed her first film job as a production assistant on a Tony Scott movie working over forty hours a week yet still managed to graduate in time on the deans list in 2010.

Immediately after graduation, Antoinette moved to New York with no money, no job, and a lot of ambition. She landed her first job driving a wardrobe truck as a costume intern on an independent Forty Acres and a Mule film, which led her to a career in costumes. For financial reasons, she remained in costumes for ten years, but used her time wisely to study the process on set. In 2016, she began studies at The Second City which led her to write her first feature and many other scripts.

In 2019, she started her own production company called I&I Filmworks Inc. Her first project under the business would be a documentary in Jamaica, which is currently in post production.

Shortly after her first production, Antoinette got deeper into writing and began writing episodes for a global anthology series which led to her meet a group of Irish comedians. She and this group of actors clicked so well creatively that they decided to start their own comedy brand, Dublin Comedy TV (aka DiCtv). Under the new brand, Antoinette wrote, produced, directed, and edited award-winning sketches, music videos, a TV pilot, a musical, and a sketch comedy radio show that aired weekly on Chicago Comedy Scene Radio. In 2021, Antoinette wrote and directed the comedy troupe for a variety show shot under Pat Shortt’s Gables End Media.

Antoinette is currently ghostwriting a satirical biography and developing a sitcom while continuing to write and produce for Dublin Comedy TV and various clients.

PRESS

Tipperary Live
Article on Pat Shortt’s Comedy Heads

RTE Entertainment
Article on “Be in My Bubble” Music Video

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL
Winner- Best International Sketch
Unorganized Crime

LONDON- WORLDWIDE COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL
Winner- Best Music Video
Sock Garters

DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL
Winner- Best Irish Sketch
Captain Tiny Hands

VENICE SHORTS AWARDS
Nominee- Best Comedy Sketch
Elbows

SCREENCRAFT COMEDY SCREENPLAY CONTEST
Semi-Finalist
Chubby Lubby
Quarter-Finalist
Woodlands

SCREENCRAFT FILM FUND CONTEST
Quarter-Finalist
Exiled in Ireland

AUSTIN SKETCH FESTIVAL
Honorable Mention- Best Sketch
Elbows

COMEDYWIRE
Winner- Joe Toplyn’s Joke of the Week