OFF BROADWAY
April Yvette Thompson’s Liberty City (co-written by April Yvette Thompson & Jessica Blank) has been nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show and April received Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Broadway.com Audience and AUDELCO nominations for Best Solo Performance for the world premiere of Liberty City at New York Theatre Workshop this past spring.

April has appeared Off Broadway in the New York premiere of The Exonerated (dir. Bob Balaban) which ran for a year and half and was named best play of the year; the world premiere of Tanya Barfield & Lynn Nottage's The Antigone Project at The Women's Project (dir. Annie Dorsen & Liesl Tommy); the world premiere of Kia Corthron's Light Raise the Roof (dir. Michael John Garces) at NYTW; the world premiere of Zakiyyah Alexander's SICK??? (dir. Daniella Topol) at The Summer Play Festival, Susan-Lori Parks' 365 Plays/365 Days (dir. Liz Diamond) at NYTW & The Public Theatre, The Acting Company's The Rivals (dir. Nicky Martin), Macbeth (dir. Anne Justine D'Zmura) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (dir. Matt August). A Classical Theatre of Harlem company member, April has received AUDELCO nominations for her work in Medea (dir. Alfred Preisser) and Macbeth and has also appeared in productions of King Lear with Paul Butler and Jean Genet's The Blacks (dir. Christopher McElroen).

A great supporter of new work and the classics, April has played the leads in the workshops of Tanya Barfield's Of Equal Measure (dir. Leigh Silverman), Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Good Negro and Marcus Gardley’s the road weeps, the well runs dry (dir. Leah Gardiner) at The Lark Play Development Center and New York Theatre Workshop where she is a Usual Suspect.

FILM & TELEVISION
Currently, April appears in the films Phoebe in Wonderland with Felicity Huffman & Bill Pullman (dir. Daniel Barnz) and Accidental Husband with Uma Thurman (dir. Griffin Dunne). Other features include Bernard & Doris with Ralph Fiennes & Susan Sarandon, The Exonerated with Danny Glover, Aidan Quinn, Delroy Lindo & Susan Sarandon (both dir. Bob Balaban) and the independent film I Am Ali at Sundance (dir. Dream Hampton). April's television work includes Third Watch, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Dave Chappelle Show, Guiding Light and As The World Turns.

REGIONAL THEATRE
Recent credits include critical acclaim for the Miami premiere of Liberty City (dir. Jessica Blank) at the Arsht Center; April originated the role of a Liberian Freedom Fighter at The McCarter Theatre in Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed (dir. Liesl Tommy) and co-starred with Wendell Pearce in Nathan Jackson's Broke-ology (dir. Thomas Kail) at Williamstown Theatre Festival. April won a Seattle Footlights Award for Best Performance in Wine in the Wilderness at Seattle ACT, A Raisin in the Sun at Hartford Stage (dir. Seret Scott), the world premiere of Seret Scott's Second Line (dir. Regge Life) at Passage Theatre Company, the world premiere of Kia Corthron's The Venus De Milo is Armed (dir. Valerie Curtis-Newton) at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, A Raisin in the Sun (dir. L. Kenneth Richardson) at Dallas Theatre Center & Great Lakes Theatre Festival, A Christmas Carol (dir. James Bundy) and From the Mississippi Delta (dir. Kaia Calhoun) at GLTF & Merrimack Repertory Theatre and The African Company Presents Richard III (dir. Hal Scott). April has workshopped her solo play, Liberty City at 651 Arts, Hartford Stage, New York Stage & Film, Seattle ACT, The Daryl Roth Theatre and The Mark Taper Forum.

INTERNATIONAL THEATRE
April received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for her portrayal of Sunny Jacobs in The Exonerated. She toured the US and Zimbabwe with From the Mississippi Delta which she performed at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA).

TEACHING
April serves on faculty at The Maggie Flanigan Studios teaching Writing, Audition Technique, The Business of Acting, Shakespeare and Classical Performance. She has taught at Rutgers University, Vassar College, Harlem School of the Arts, University of Zimbabwe and various Universities throughout the United States as a Teaching Artist for The Acting Company. April has served as Artist in Residence at Manhattan Theatre Club, 651 Arts and Director/Founder of the The Children’s Defense Fund’s Fundi Freedom Schools where she developed Arts in Education Curriculum for 1500 at-risk students.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, English from Vassar College
Master of Fine Arts, Theatre from Rutgers University