Abby Berendt Lavoi is an award-winning Director, Producer, Writer, mother, cancer survivor, and joyful ball of sarcasm. She is currently Showrunner, and Executive Producer of My Amazing Cheap Date: New Orleans, and Fantasy Homes: New Orleans. She has received honors and awards from the New York Television Festival, the Telly Awards, New Orleans Film Festival, PromaxBDA, Broadcast Education Association, 48 Hour Film Festival, Colorado State Alumni Association, Oxford Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival, among many others. She is a member of Free the Bid / Free the Work, Women in Film & Television (WiFT) and Cinefemme. She has worked with various media companies, which have spanned the industries of TV, Film, Internet, Publishing, Radio, and Music. Her television & staff credits include MTV, MTV2, mtvU, TV Land, Nick@Nite, and Current TV. Since 2008, she has successfully run Lavoi Creative, LLC (TeamJADED Productions), a full service creative agency and production studio. She has created video work for Google, YouTube (Corporate) Pandora Internet Radio, Netflix, Autodesk, Squarespace, MindBodyGreen, Vox, MindBodyGreen, Bank of America, SFMOMA, YouTube, TuneIn Radio, Discovery Channel, Google Play, COMPLEX, Marriott, Mastercard, as well as many other companies and various political campaigns. She created and produced the web series "It’s a Rough Life", which was a finalist for the 2014 New York Television Festival’s History Unscripted Development Pipeline. Her film, Always There won Best Film and Best Actress at the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Festival in 2012. She produced and edited the feature length film, Rolled, which won Best Editing at Mockfest in 2012. She produced the award winning short film, Rougarou, directed by Lorraine Caffery. Her doc short “Feufollet: Roots of Fire” from the larger documentary project “Roots of Fire” was a finalist in the Berlin Flash Film Festival in 2017. In 2020, another short doc from the Roots of Fire project, "California Creole", featuring Grammy awarding winning accordion prodigy, Andre Thierry, screened at several festivals, including SFIndieFest, Oxford International Film Festival, and the New Orleans Film Festival. Her screenplay, Saving Yourself, was a finalist in the WeScreenplay 2021 Feature Contest. Her current directing project, “Roots of Fire” is screening on the festival circuit globally. She has earned five Telly Awards for short documentaries and branded content. Abby also has an in-depth background in marketing & promotions, spearheading campaigns for HarperCollins Publishers, working in the Sony Music Alternative Marketing Department, and writing and producing promos for TVLand, Nick@Nite, and Current TV. She has a degree in Technical Journalism and Video Communication from Colorado State University. Her fundamental passion is to tell creative, socially relevant, and cinematically engaging stories.