"Daddy's Little Junebug"  

A rite of passage rhythmic piece that examines growing up in the conservative Southern culture and the daughter of an alcoholic father.

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April Garton, aka June bug, Grapeape, Tutenhiemer, & Shaka Queen hails from Houston, Texas, and is a proud 6th generation Texan!  She graduated from the High school for Performing & Visual Arts/Vocal Major, singing, tapping, and performing her way to a BFA in Musical Theatre from Sam Houston State University—Eat um Bear Kats!! (Insert kat claw here).

She then shot straight out of the jazz hand barrel for two years of graduate study in Acting at UC Irvine, CA. Eat um up….Anteaters…

In 2001 she received the prestigious Artsbridge Health Scholar award teaching special needs children how to communicate through sensory imaging and story telling. Some of her favorite and most rewarding theatre credits include: Emma from Betrayal, Boo Levy/ Last Night of Ballyhoo, Brooke/ Noises Off!  Sheila/ A Chorus Line , Edith/ Pirates of Penzance, & Irene Molloy/ Hello Dolly! (Granbury Opera House). A few of her film credits include: the feature Split, (Paramount Premiere), Tristan McDougherty, *Brooks Institute, best film short nominee, Hollywood film Festival 2005* Get Rich Quick, and the sketch comedy sit com pilot Quiet on the Set.

She has been living in LA for the past 2 years performing pieces of her written work in Wendy Kamenoff’s Story Pie and Tasty Words. 

She has performed “Daddy’s Little June Bug” at the prestigious White Fire Theatre in Sherman Oaks known for their Solo Series Festival and Emerging Artists showcase 2007.  April would like to give a special thank you to my solo show teach Wendy Kamenoff, for nurturing my voice and out of the box approach, Nadia Angelini for your incredible friendship and creative, inspiring spirit! MOM, for your courage, as a woman, to speak your truth, (l love you!!)  and Gran, my beloved Gran.  I hope your Tutenhiemer makes you proud…this is for you.

If you liked the Bug so much and you wanna come back for round two, April will be performing “Daddy’s Little June Bug” in April (well go figure), at the White Fire Theatre in their ongoing solo series festival 2007.

She is also very proud of her feature film debut Split  premiering at Paramount Studios, March 1st, 2007.  For more details on the movie go to:

myspace.com/split_movie

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