DONNA EDGE-RACHELL PRESIDENT

Donna Edge-Rachell is an Emmy Award-winning television producer and President of Antoinette Media. Over her career, she has produced for personalities as varied as domestic icon Martha Stewart, Academy Award winner Lee Grant, and hip hop legend Funkmaster Flex. She has produced programming for MTV, VH1, OWN, WE, TLC, CBS, Lifetime, A&E, ESPN, CMT, and PBS, earning three Emmys and five nominations for her efforts.

Edge-Rachell comes to Antoinette from Paramount, where she served as Executive Producer, overseeing the relaunch of VH1’s #1 reality franchise, Love and Hip Hop, and developing new series such as Family Reunion, Couple’s Retreat, Run It Back!, and Shaunie & Keion: Destination I Do.

Edge-Rachell’s production career launched with a role as Producer for The Voyager Company’s critically acclaimed Criterion Collection. Previously, she served as Director of Distribution for Janus Films, after stints in administration for Actors’ Equity and advertising for Young & Rubicam.

Edge-Rachell began her career as a dancer, studying at New York’s famed High School of Performing Arts, on scholarship at Alvin Ailey, and touring with the Eglevsky Ballet’s “The Nutcracker.” She stays connected to dance as a Co-Owner of The Edge School of the Arts (ESOTA) in Jamaica, Queens, where she takes pride in mentoring students and passing her love of dance on to the next generation. She is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Sorority, Inc.