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Meet Antoinette Greene

As a kid watching and doing high kicks with the dancers on the Red Skelton Show, I knew that was where I belonged. Reality check: being a kid of a single mother and two siblings, well… I was finally able to get my hustle on at The Paradise Garage.           

My mother was the one that exposed us to Broadway shows, and she gifted me with, “When one door closes, another one open”. My father, once out of recovery was back in my life, and his candor was what I needed in my teenage years. On the contrary, he took me to Off-Off Broadway, and with him I acquired a taste for exotic foods and being true to my voice.            

One of the more memorable plays I went to with him was “The Me Nobody Knows” with a chubby Irene Cara. She looked like me and I wanted to be on that stage. Instead, I attended the H.S. of Fashion Industries because I was scared to audition for The School of Performing Arts and my mother threatened to send me down south with my grandparents if I attended the neighborhood school. Then on to FIT for Fashion Buying, and lucky for me in my last semester, I took a TV production class and the flame was, lit again.       

I took some TV production classes, which led to a job at WNEW-Metromedia (now FOX) as a Page. Then worked my way into the Engineering dept. Editing, taping, studio camera… whatever was thrown my way, I was game.  Married and with a child, a co-worker asked me what I did for myself, I could only answer “nothing”. He was taking acting classes and okay…there was that fire again. I signed up for classes at HB studio, got new headshots, was ready was to roll but was sidetracked with my divorce.

Shortly after a childhood crush ask me to marry him and off to Maryland I went with my 5 year old daughter. I continued to work at FOX in DC and squeezed in classes, auditioning, acting, exercising, biking, Union Rep, being a mother and a wife.              

Now, widowed, retired, a grandmother, I am free to explore my life. Auditioning and acting between DC and New York. I got myself back, now I can kick my legs as high as they’ll go and my passion for fashion shows in how I want to play on any given day. My love for my art is to show forgiveness to myself in the hope it gives to the audience just what they need in that very moment.