April's IMDb Credits Include:
Emotional Access Foundations Course
This course teaches the core emotional access method. You will learn how to stay present, reduce overthinking, build confidence, and access emotion without force.
April guides you through grounding tools, nervous system regulation, personal triggers, emotion mapping, and the full process of living inside emotional scenes. Foundations gives you a clear and repeatable system you can use for any audition or role.
Tools, Techniques, and Exercises Course
This advanced course expands your emotional flexibility with April’s complete exercise library.
You will get body and voice based emotion workouts, breathwork techniques, high stakes and surprise drills, chemistry exercises, trigger deck training, music based tools, and guided meditations.
These exercises deepen your emotional range, improve connection, and make emotional access more natural over time.
Student Testimonials
EMOTIONAL ACCESS COURSE MODULES
Goals to Growth
3Â Video Lessons
Reframe goals, expand emotional vocabulary, and build sustainable access.
The Goals to Growth module helps you reframe common acting goals into deeper, more sustainable approaches for emotional access.
You’ll learn to expand your emotional vocabulary, build confidence, and create space for a wider range of feelings.
This module lays the foundation for long-term growth by connecting nervous system regulation with authentic, nuanced performance.
Tapping into Emotion
4 Video Lessons
Explore confidence, crying, anger, and possibility to deepen emotional range.
The Tapping into Emotion module helps you explore confidence, crying, anger, and possibility—and discover how to access them truthfully on camera.
You’ll learn why confidence is more powerful than forcing tears, how anger can be expressed safely, and how emotional access is something you can build.
This module empowers you to stop pushing and start trusting your emotional availability.
Anchor the Work
3 Video Lessons
Ground yourself with “I Am” statements and nervous system regulation tools.
In the Anchor the Work module, you'll learn how to ground yourself with simple tools like “I Am” statements and nervous system regulation.
These practices strengthen confidence, improve auditions and slates, and give you reliable access to grounded emotion.
The more consistently you use these anchors, the more natural and flexible your emotional work becomes.
Living Emotional Scenes
6 Video Lessons
Connect triggers, character, and mapping into fully lived performances.
The Living Emotional Scenes module walks you through the full process of preparing and living inside emotional scenes.
You’ll connect personal triggers to character work, map emotions beat by beat, and practice dropping in so the work feels alive and repeatable.
The emphasis is on creating truth without forcing feelings.
Integration and Examples
4 Video Lessons
Wrap up tools, integrate practice and performance, and examples to solidify lessons.
In the Integration and Examples module, we bring everything together, review your growth, and set yourself up for continued practice.
This section shares more examples and processes you can return to long after the course ends.
It’s also a moment to acknowledge your progress and celebrate your expanded capacity as an actor.
Expanding Range
10 Video Lessons
Sharpen awareness with emotional vocabulary, workouts, and body connection.
The Expanding Range module helps you sharpen your awareness of emotional nuance through vocabulary, observation, and embodiment.
You’ll practice body-only and voice-only emotion workouts, learning how repetition and curiosity expand what feels natural.
By the end, you’ll be more flexible and confident in your ability to access new emotions on camera.
Emotional Prep in Practice
7 Video Lessons
Practice chemistry, word syncing, monologues, and on-camera emotional exercises.
In the Emotional Prep in Practice module, you’ll explore hands-on exercises to prepare for emotional work, including chemistry-building, word syncing, and monologue practice.
You’ll see why imagining the stimulus creates more truthful reactions and how recording yourself reveals progress.
This module bridges technical training with authentic, repeatable performance.
Breath Tools
11 Video Lessons
Use breath to access vulnerability, energy, stillness, and balance.
The Breath Tools module introduces powerful techniques to shift your emotional state instantly.
From calming and grounding breaths to energizing and activating patterns, you’ll discover how to use breath for vulnerability, intensity, or balance.
These tools give you reliable access to different states for auditions and scenes.
Surprise, Fear & Unexpected
6 Video Lessons
Exercises to train surprise, fear, altered states, and high-stakes emotional truth.
In the Surprise, Fear & the Unexpected module, you’ll train your ability to play high-stakes emotions truthfully.
Exercises guide you through escalating from surprise to fear, embodying urgency, simulating altered states, and even portraying death on camera.
You’ll also learn how to separate safely from intense material afterward.
Emotional Triggers
4 Video Lessons
Organize, build, and apply personal triggers for deeper emotional truth.
The Emotional Triggers module teaches you how to build, organize, and apply a personal deck of emotional triggers.
You’ll explore direct and indirect substitution, discover ways to adapt when a trigger isn’t landing, and learn grounding practices to stay open.
These tools create a lasting, personalized resource for deeper emotional access.
More Tools and Exercises
5 Video Lessons
Expand emotional capacity through comedy, music, shadow, and inner child.
In the More Tools & Exercises module, you’ll expand your emotional capacity with creative approaches like comedy substitution, using music, and shadow or inner child work.
These techniques open up new pathways to truth and vulnerability in performance.
The module closes with a celebration and sendoff to acknowledge your growth.
Student Testimonials
What Actors Are Saying About April’s Training
This has hands down been one of, if not THE, most impactful classes I’ve taken. I already feel a noticeable difference in my acting when using these tools.”
— Nathan Murphy
“I had an intense crying/sobbing scene on set, and I used the techniques I learned in class. I feel SO SOLID about my performance. Thank you!”
— Susan Swavely
“I feel like my acting palate has been expanded! Thank you April!”
— Maiché Word
“I became less self-conscious about accessing my emotions in front of others, which helped me get out of my head and be more connected.”
— Chelsea Lavallee
“I’ve taken multiple classes with April and have seen results in my bookings! April gave me clear and specific feedback in class that improved my camera acting and prepared me for my agent search. I’d definitely recommend taking her class!”
— Gilda Chestney
"April was the first Drama Inc. teacher I ever had, and she created a space that felt both safe and challenging. Her coaching has had a lasting impact on my growth as an actor, and I'll always value her as a teacher!"
— Noah Jay Wood
