Known for Writing
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.
Born
April 30, 1985 (age 41)
Birthplace
Torrance, California, USA
Filmography
3 films, 8 shows


A Sad and Beautiful World
2026 · 1h 50m
country: Lebanon
Across three decades of passion, loss, and hope, Nino and Yasmina are bound by a magnetic relationship. Torn between love and survival, they must decide whether to build a family in Lebanon or leave their home despite tragedies.


Joyland
2022 · 2h 7m
country: Pakistan
As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.


The Providers
2017 · 15m
country: Unknown
A female pimp struggles with providing for her family as well as the women she employs.