Antoinette LaVecchia is an award winning actress and playwright. Born is Southern Italy, her parents emigrated to the United States when she was a small child. She studied English Literature at Cornell University and received her MFA at NYU's Tisch Graduate Acting Program. In the Fall of 1991, she traveled to Moscow and received a certificate of study from the Moscow Art Theater. Awarded a Fox Fellowship, she studied with members of Theatre de Complicite and Philippe Gaulier in London.