Meet the Fine Arts Faculty

"Is he quite safe?  I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr. Beaver..."Who said anything about safe? Course he isn't safe.  But he's good.  He's the King, I tell you."  The irresistible draw of The Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis enchanted the imagination and lit the path toward redemption for a young April Miller. She would be captivated by stories and their transformative power for the next forty-five years and for the foreseeable future.  She began teaching at Covenant in 2011, and leads the Theatre Arts program for the Logic and Rhetoric Schools.  After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting at Baylor University with an emphasis in Directing, she went on to pursue a career in acting, directing, and interior design. Alongside her husband, Stephen Miller, she worked on stage, in churches directing and acting, film, and radio drama in the Dallas area.  They have two wonderful children, Juliet and Brennan, living in Brooklyn and Denver respectively.  

April has been pleased to produce and direct such shows as The Crucible by Arthur Miller, The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson, The Odyssey adapted by Mary Zimmerman and Sense & Sensibility adapted by Kate Hamill.  While at Covenant, April has undertaken an effort to bring the community together around the arts by the formation of Fine Arts Night in the fall; the Logic School Shakespeare, Music, and Arts Festival in the spring; and was a founding member of the fine arts booster club, Friends of the Arts.  She has led the TAPPS One-Act team to place in state competitions each of the 8 years Covenant has participated and on to three state championship titles.  In 2016, she was certified in Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance at the Globe Theatre, London.  For the past two years Covenant has launched and hosted  the Classics One-Act Play Festival.  A one-act competition for Logic school students with a strong emphasis on rich and timeless texts.  In January of 2024, April trained with Frantic Assembly in a short term residency program at the  University of Southern California at Long Beach.  April currently teaches 7th and 8th  Grade Theatre Arts, and Rhetoric classes: One-Act Production and Acting & Stagecraft.  

Her greatest joy is seeing students discover and develop their own God-given gifts, and then offer them back as a gift to Him and others; to play their part in the life-changing power of story and answer the irresistible draw of the King.