April is an award-winning theater, film, and television writer, director, producer, performer, 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 with Robert Downey, Jr. at Team Downey; Warner Bros. Studios on The Big Bang Theory and Mom; Disney-ABC Studios on NYPD Blue; and CBS Studios, where she became a writer for the hit primetime TV series Scorpion. CBS Studio and Network executives stated she wrote their "favorite episode of the entire series," and immediately greenlit a sequel. Her work on this series alone has had an audience of 30 million and counting, remaining a hit on Paramount Plus. April 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 saw her in a starring role.

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​April is beginning her eighth year as a university professor, and her third school year as faculty 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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