April has worked on over 100 productions during the last 30 years. She has designed sets, costumes, lighting, and projections for companies such as Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Only Animal, The Belfry Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Vertigo Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Regina’s Globe Theatre, and Kill Your Television.

April is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. She is a full member and past president of the Associated Designers of Canada. April was the project lead for World Stage Design 2022, which was co-hosted with CITT/ICTS at the University of Calgary. April is pleased to be in Edmonton, Alberta working in its vibrant and tenacious arts community.

In 2006, she shared the Siminovitch Protégé Prize. In 2000, she received a Tyrone Guthrie Award at the Stratford Festival of Canada, where she spent four seasons as an assistant designer. April has received multiple awards and nominations for her work onstage, for teaching, and her work with international and national arts organizations.

April apprenticed in Rome, Italy with Scenotecnia Piu’, a company known for its fine craftsmanship and majestic scenography.