April Lang

APRIL has worked in the music industry since she was fifteen as a performer, producer, talent coordinator, talent scout, and writer. She has performed in concert and on recordings as both lead and background singer working with artists like David Bowie, Peter Allen, Ronnie Spector, Mavis Staples, James Ingram, Isaac Hayes, and Steven Tyler as well as the Oscar winning composer Alan Menkin (The Little Shop of Horrors. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, etc) and Tony nominated Michael Cory (Grey Gardens). She's been a staff songwriter for several music publishers including Grammy winners Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and Warner Chappell Music. Her songs have generated platinum sales. As a session singer she's sung on hundreds of jingles, including spots for Blockbuster, Jeep, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Northwest Airlines, Nestea, Sprint, Mazda, Tropicana, Buick, Bubble Yum, Burger King, Sprite, Taco Bell, Subway, Save the Oceans Foundation, Goodyear and many others. A native New Yorker, she was a founding member of the infamous Intense Family Theatre whose midnight performances at the ElginTheater on 8th Ave are legendary. April was also a member of the award winning group Theatre Tribe here in Los Angeles. She's appeared in several of their productions, including the West Coast premiers of Landford Wilson's "Book of Days", which received a Drama Critic's Circle Award, and "Sympathetic Magic". Besides doing stints in movies like "Fame", she has continued to do film and theater on both coasts. Most recently she starred in the two character play by Donald Margulies ,"Collected Stories", which opened in LA at the Odyssey Theater and then went on the the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh Scotland, both to fantastic reviews! Recently she created, co-wrote, produced and acted in a pilot called "Dating Until Death". Show less «