Abby Berendt Lavoi is an award-winning Director, Writer, mother, cancer survivor, and joyful ball of sarcasm. She is the Showrunner of My Amazing Cheap Date: New Orleans and has received honors and awards from the New Orleans Film Festival, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, SIFF, SFIndieFest, Indie Memphis, Oxford, the Telly Awards, Promax, and many others. Her television credits include MTV, TV Land, Nick@Nite, and Current TV. Her feature documentary, Roots of Fire, won Best Film at Nederland Film Festival, and Best Director at All That Moves Film Festival. In 2021, she won the Women in Film and Television’s Resilient Woman Award and her screenplay, Saving Yourself, was a finalist in the WeScreenplay Feature Contest. She won Best Editor at Mockfest for the film Rolled. Her series It’s a Rough Life was a finalist for the NYTVF History Channel Unscripted Development Pipeline. Since 2008, she has successfully run Lavoi Creative (TeamJADED Productions), a full service creative agency and production studio. She has created content for Google, YouTube (Corporate), Pandora Internet Radio, Netflix, Autodesk, Squarespace, MindBodyGreen, Vox, MindBodyGreen, Bank of America, SFMOMA, YouTube, TuneIn Radio, Discovery Channel, COMPLEX, Marriott, Mastercard, among several other companies and various political campaigns. She is a member of Film Fatales, Free the Bid / Free the Work, Women in Film & Television (WiFT) and Cinefemme. 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 several TV Networks. 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.