April Shawhan

• Adjunct Assistant Professor
• Office: 325A East Melnitz
• E-mail:
• Phone: 310-207-4974

Biography

Acting teacher at New York City’s Playwright’s Horizons and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and head of the acting department at Trinity Rep Conservatory. She has directed many plays, including A Lie of the Mind, Top Girls, and A Savage in Limbo. As an actress she has appeared in eight Broadway plays, including A History of American Film, Rex, Over Here, and as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. Regional Theater credits include such roles as Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Nora in A Doll House. Recently, Ms. Shawhan appeared in her first film, Lay of the Land, written by Mel Shapiro.