April is an award-winning producer, playwright, performer, screenwriter, TV writer, director, novelist, and professor from Washington, D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from the School of Theater at George Mason University, then earned an MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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After moving to LA, April worked in development at Team Downey, then at Warner Bros., ABC Studios, and CBS Studios, where she became a freelance writer for the hit series Scorpion. April wrote and developed four original series with Archie Comics, Two Shakes Entertainment (Damon Wayans, Jr.), Lucid Road (Aaron Paul), and Tornante (Michael Eisner), 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 now a professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University, after five school 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, and to find laughter in the darkness.