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.
