About me
April E. Brassard is an award-winning screenwriter, TV writer, playwright, producer, director, performer, and professor from Washington, DC. April earned her MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, then moved to Los Angeles, where she began working and writing for film and TV, at CBS Studios, Warner Bros. Studios, Team Downey (Robert Downey, Jr.), and ABC-Disney Television Studios. April wrote and developed original series with Archie Comics, Tornante (Michael Eisner), Two Shakes (Damon Wayans, Jr.), and Lucid Road (Aaron Paul), then wrote and produced a six-time internationally award-winning short film with stars from Marvel and Netflix that was recognized by Geena Davis at her Bentonville Film Festival. After her dad had a heart transplant at the onset of the pandemic, she moved back home and became a professor at the School of Theater at George Mason University, where she taught for five years, won a Purks Grant, and was Director of their Ten-Minute Play Festival. This is April’s second year as a faculty member in the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University, where she served as Director for their mainstage production of “Orlando,” won a Cawley Career Champion Award, is an Engelhard Fellow, and is Co-Producer and Director of the “Heart of the Harvey” festival of new works in collaboration with the School of Medicine. April is also an experienced editor, cinematographer, novelist, poet, fine artist, photographer, and musician. She adores teaching Acting to our brilliant Georgetown students!
