April E. Brassard is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, TV writer, musician, artist, producer, performer and professor. The only child of scientists, she was predestined for a career in medicine, until an esteemed pre-med program went awry and chronic illness decimated her life, catalyzing her to pivot paths. After becoming a background actor on the hit WB television series Dawson’s Creek, she fell in love with the performing arts. April earned her MFA at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, then moved to Hollywood to work with Team Downey (Robert Downey, Jr.), Warner Bros. Studios, CBS Studios, Disney-ABC Studios, and CBS Studios, where she wrote and produced episodes of primetime television. She then delved into development, writing four original series with Archie Comics, Two Shakes Entertainment (Damon Wayans, Jr.), Lucid Road (Aaron Paul), and Tornante (Michael Eisner). She then wrote and produced I Was a Stranger, a six-time internationally award-winning short film with stars from Marvel and Netflix. She wrote and produced ten plays, including two “five-star,” “must-see,” sold-out productions at the Capital Fringe Festival. April moved from LA to DC after her father had a heart transplant at the start of the pandemic, becoming a professor at the School of Theater at George Mason University for five years and serving as Director of their new works festival for four years, in addition to winning the Robert K. Purks Faculty Enrichment Grant from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. She then joined the faculty of the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University, where she has been awarded the Faculty Career Champions Award, and will be the Director of Orlando, Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, and the 20th Anniversary celebration of the Gonda Theater. She strives to speak for the silenced through her art while educating the next generation of artists.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Adjunct Lecturer, College - Department of Performing Arts