Discovery Session
Pay what you can: $10–3460 minutes on Zoom · use within 30 days
Identify what’s holding you back and find solutions. Complete a short survey, pay what you can, then schedule your session.
Services
Private 1:1 coaching for actors & writers
Your goals, mapped out and acted on, with April’s full attention: Strategy Sessions, five-session coaching packages and the FixMyStory writer retreat, all on Zoom.
Ways to work with April privately
Strategy Session
$75080-minute Zoom session
Map out your goals, then get a follow-up with a detailed plan to accomplish them within 3–6 months. Every client completes a Strategy Session before buying the discounted coaching package.
5-Session Private Coaching Package
$3,725Five 80-minute sessions · use within 90 days
Private coaching on your acting career, writing or both. Available as a payment plan of 3 monthly payments of $1,241.67 if your account is in good standing.
FixMyStory: 1:1 Writer Retreat
$3,200Any weekend · 2 days
Hear your script read aloud, get page-by-page notes, rewrite overnight and hear the new draft on day 2. For writers with a first draft or at least 50 pages.
New classes are announced soon. Write to April to hear first.
What sets April’s coaching apart
Most acting classes teach you how to audition using acting techniques instead of business strategies that address our industry as it exists right now. April coaches the business strategy: finding work beyond your physical type and into your Emotional Type, and telling your own stories so you can collect three checks as actor, writer and producer.
Prolific acting careers are not built from “dumb luck” or an accident. They are shaped by a thoughtful strategy.
We don’t want to just take your money. We want to give you the tools to change your life and build the career of YOUR DREAMS.
What private clients say
I coached with April for months, she kicked my butt in all the right ways. She challenged me to dig a lot deeper than I even realized that I even had. The training was really specific, compassionate, intelligent, informative. She helped me pull out some of my best work. As a result, I auditioned for 12 different grad programs, got into 11 of them. Now, I’m at Juilliard, part of the first group of the masters division. I have no doubt that I would not be here if not for April.
April Yvette Thompson is one of the most influential teaching artists I have ever worked with. She is a first rate teacher and coach who has had an immense impact on my life. Whether April is functioning as an acting coach, business teacher or writing instructor, which I have been lucky enough to have been her student in all three capacities, her teaching is incredibly specific. I would not be at the Juilliard School right now if I hadn’t worked with her.
Just signed with new agents & managers this week. Couldn’t have done it without April’s sage advice & incredible coaching. You should have seen my cover letter to these people. Apparently it blew them away & I had an actual CHOICE among agents who wanted to represent me. All down to April.
April Yvette Thompson gives insightful and hard-hitting advice that not only motivates, but gives you the much needed kick-in-the-pants that even an experienced actor such as myself needs.
More stories from April’s clients are coming soon.
Let’s map out your next chapter
Start with a pay-what-you-can Discovery Session, or write to April about a Strategy Session.