[1][2] Colangelo graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1997 and Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2001.

[3] She received her MFA at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

It won the Grand Jury Prizes for Narrative Short from the Seattle International Film Festival.

[6] Colangelo's remake of an Israeli film, The Kindergarten Teacher, won a directing award in Sundance's dramatic film category and was picked up by Netflix in 2018.

[7][8] Her film Worth, written by Max Borenstein, was called "a provocative moral thriller" and explored the nuances of determining the value of a lost life for the 911 victims fund.