April is an award-winning writer, director, producer, performer, novelist, and professor from Washington, D.C. The only child of environmentalists, she was destined for a career in the sciences. She was pre-med, interning and studying to be a surgeon, when an epidemiological study went awry and chronic illness decimated her life.  She then pivoted paths, seeking the arts for escapism from the torment. A twist of fate and her mother's perseverance led her to playing a "Capeside High Student" on the hit WB television series Dawson’s Creek, after which she fell in love with television production and the performing arts.

 

 

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After studying theater at at UNC Chapel Hill, fine arts and screenwriting at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, Global Theater at the University of Hawaii, and Shakespeare and Psychology at Harvard, April graduated magna cum laude from the School of Theater at George Mason University. She went on to earn her terminal degree, an MFA in Dramatic Writing, from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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April then moved to Los Angeles, working at Team Downey (Robert Downey, Jr.), then at Warner Bros. Studios, Disney-ABC Studios, and CBS Studios, where she became a freelance writer for the hit series Scorpion. April then met her Manager, Brendan Bragg, at Haven Entertainment in LA, and went on to write and develop four original series with Archie Comics (Archie Studios, Warner Bros. Studios), Two Shakes Entertainment (Damon Wayans, Jr., CBS Studios), Lucid Road (Aaron Paul, HBO Max), and Tornante (Michael Eisner, Tornante Studios, Universal Television), then penned and produced a six-time internationally-awarded short film with talent from Marvel, Netflix, Hulu, and Starz. ​As a playwright, ten of her plays have been produced in the greater metropolitan area from 2008 to present day, including two critically-acclaimed productions at the Capital Fringe Festival, the most recent of which (2024) saw her in a starring role.

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​April is beginning her third school year as a professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Performing Arts in the College of Arts & Sciences, after spending five years as a professor at the School of Theater at George Mason University. Her mission is to turn trauma into drama, speak for the silenced through entertainment, find laughter in the darkness, and educate the next generation of artists.​ April is represented by her Manager, Brendan Bragg at Haven Entertainment in Los Angeles.

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