Talent Guide

April Shih

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Episodic Lab 2017

Bio

April Shih is a screenwriter from Los Angeles. After attending film school at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Shih directed and produced several films and plays including the independent feature You, Only Better and the Ovation Award-winning revival of Kiss of the Spiderwoman: The Musical. Shih spent two years playing poker in Las Vegas before pursuing a degree in playwriting at Cal State Northridge. April is the winner of a TV Academy Foundation comedy writing internship and was recently a 2017 CAPE New Writers Fellow. With her dramedy pilot Tilting, April has been selected into the 2017 Sundance Episodic Story Lab, as well as the inaugural Film Independent Episodic Lab.

Current Project

Tilting (Pilot)

Logline

A math teacher with a secret reinvents herself in Vegas as a poker player and finds a tribe of supportive degenerates. This half-hour dramedy follows people with nothing left to lose as they discover the unlikely optimism that comes from being at rock bottom.