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April Culver is an actor and marketing professional from San Jose, CA. She is proud to have received her BFA in Acting from Drake University.

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Theatre:

A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
HelenaSilicon Valley Shakespeare
(Cindy Weisberg)
The Grapes of WrathRose of
Sharon
Los Altos Stage 
(Jeffrey Lo)
Shakespeare In LoveViolaPalo Alto Players 
(LeeAnn Payne)
Dracula Lucy Theatre Lunatico
(Tina Taylor)
As You Like It Celia Silicon Valley Shakespeare
(Cyndi Lagodinski)
Boom Jo MiniLights Theatre
(Melinda Marks)
School For ScandalMariaTheatre Lunatico 
(Tina Taylor)
In the Next Room
(or The Vibrator Play)
Mrs. GivingsPear Theatre 
(Caroline Clark)
SFBATCC Nomination- Principal Actress
HamletRosencrantzSilicon Valley Shakespeare
(Angie Higgins)
King LearCordelia/FoolB8 Theatre  
(Jeremy Cole)
A View from
the Bridge
CatherinePear Theatre  
(Ray Renati)
Permanent CollectionGillianPiedmont Center Theatre  
(Jeffrey Lo)
The Three Musketeers ConstanceSilicon Valley Shakespeare
(Doug Brook)
Julius Caesar CalpurniaSilicon Valley Shakespeare
(Richard Farrel)
Pear SlicesEnsemblePear Theatre
(Troy Johnson,
Robyn Ginsburg)
Uncle VanyaSonyaPear Theatre
(Jeffrey Lo)
Shakespeare in HollywoodOliviaSilicon Valley Shakespeare
(Doug Brook)
The TempestMirandaSilicon Valley Shakespeare
(Dinna Meyers)
OthelloDesdemonaIowa Shakespeare Experience
(Lorenzo Sandoval)
HamletOpheliaLittle Apple Creek Theatre
(Danielle Dolezal)
Twelfth NightViolaDrake University
(Karla Kash)
The Cherry
Orchard
RanevskayaDrake University
(Clive Elliot)

Staged Readings:

Comm 150
Ashley
San Francisco Playhouse
(Jeffrey Lo)
Young Playwrights’ ProjectEnsembleTheatreWorks
(Jeffrey Lo,
James Nelson)
Oskar and the Countless
Costume Changes
BethTheatreWorks
(Amy Cole-Farrel)

Training:

Acting:

Shakespeare, Restoration Comedy, Chekhov, Modern, Contemporary, Stanislavski, Meisner, Realism (Karla Kash, Dr. Deena Conely, Clive Elliot, Julian López-Morillas, Michael Rothmayer)

Movement:

Laban, Alexander Technique, Michael Chekhov (Karla Kash, Clive Elliot, John Graham)

Voice:

Diction, Projection, Vocal Color, IPA, Roy Hart

Special Skills:

Dialects: Irish, British, Brooklyn, Russian (Clive Elliot, John Graham)

Long-distance running