Donique Grace Patton is a multifaceted professional with a 15-year career spanning the motion picture industry, specializing in film, television, and animation production. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, she relocated to Des Moines, Iowa, where she earned a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from Drake University. Additionally, she pursued further studies in writing and creative arts as an exchange student in South America, London, Russia, and Wales.
Upon returning to the United States, Ms. Patton-Walls began her career in entertainment, working her way up from an assistant to a sketch comedy writer for the Chicago Second City Theater Comedy Television show "Go Live". After three years, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she trained and studied film development at Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. Studios.
Ms. Patton-Walls transitioned from film development to live-action animation, serving as animation associate and on-location continuity supervisor for the Disney Feature "DINOSAUR". This international project, which took 10 years and thousands of crew members to complete, was shot on location in South America and North America, including Hawaii.
As a script supervisor and Assistant Director, she has worked on over 100 feature and television projects, including big-budget epics and commercials that have shot on four continents. Recently, she established a production company, Argo Entertainment, LLC, where she is currently developing eight scripts. Having completed the writing of a comedy and a thriller/drama short, she is in pre-production on those projects.
Ms. Patton-Walls is currently rewriting her latest feature film, "Wild in the West". She resides in Burbank, California, with her writer-director husband.
