Theater, Film & Television
Writer, Director,
Producer & Professor
at Georgetown University
-MD Theater Guide
"MUST-SEE!"
-Washington City Paper
"Remarkable... Captivating"
-DC Theater Arts
"Thank you for helping me become a better person."
"The world would be a better place if there were more April Brassards."
"My favorite professor at Georgetown."
About April
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. She graduated magna cum laude from the School of Theater at George Mason University, then earned her MFA from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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​After becoming a background actor on the hit WB television series Dawson’s Creek, April dove headfirst into the performing arts. She moved to LA, 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.
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Ten of her plays have been produced in the greater metropolitan area, including two critically-acclaimed productions at the Capital Fringe Festival, the most recent of which saw her in a starring role in 2024.
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​April is beginning her third school year at Georgetown University as a faculty member of Theater and Performance Studies in the Department of Performing Arts in the College of Arts & Sciences, after five years as a professor at the School of Theater at George Mason University.
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Her mission is to turn trauma into drama, to speak for the silenced through entertainment, to find laughter in the darkness, and to educate the next generation of artists.​ April is represented by her Manager, Brendan Bragg at Haven Entertainment in Los Angeles.
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April and Geena Davis at Bentonville Film Festival 2021
Elizabeth Rodriguez, Reiko Aylesworth, April, and Jason Butler Harner on the set of I Was A Stranger
Professional Memberships
Los Angeles
Washington, DC
New York