Artist Bio

April Cleveland

(Bio as of October 2019)

April Cleveland (In the Sick Bay of the Santa Maria, role) makes their Goodman Theatre debut. Chicago credits: Burrow (The Museum of Contemporary Art); Above the Burrow (Prop Thtr); Oresteia, Cockroach, The WitnessSeven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, Dying City (The Theatre School). Off-Broadway: The Two Noble Kinsmen (Classic Stage Company/Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On Festival). Assistant Directing: Downstate (dir. Pam Mackinnon, Steppenwolf); The Crucible (dir. Robert Icke, Theater Basel); A Shayna Maidel (dir. Vanessa Stalling, TimeLine). An ensemble member at The COOP Theater (Off-Broadway), April serves as faculty for the directing concentration of the high school training program within DePaul University. She is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University (MFA Directing). www.aprilcleveland.com