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Dubbed the "ventriloquial vixen" by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, April Brucker is an American actress, comedienne and television personality. Her television credits include her streaming comedy special "April Backstage," plus "Entertainment Tonight" (CBS Paramount), "Inside Edition" (King World), "Judge Jerry" (NBC Universal), "The Layover" (Travel Channel), "My Strange Addiction" (TLC), "Today" (NBC), "Secret Restoration" (HISTORY), "Videos After Dark" (ABC), "The Wendy Williams Show" (FOX), "What's My Secret?" (MTV), "What Would You Do?" (ABC) and many other network, cable and international TV shows.
Growing up in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, April spent more than a decade living, acting and performing in New York City at cabarets (Don't Tell Mama, The Duplex, The Metropolitan Room), in comedy clubs (Broadway Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Standup New York) and in off-Broadway shows, including "Murdered By The Mob," New York's longest running dinner theater production.
In Las Vegas, she has performed at Notoriety Theater, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino and in a nine month engagement as the special guest star in the classic Vegas showgirl revue "BurlesQ." April is the host of "April in Vegas," a streaming TV chat show produced on location at The English Hotel, a new Marriott Tribute Portfolio boutique hotel in the Las Vegas Arts District.
Ever since her ex-fiancé made her choose between him and her puppets, as chronicled by the "Daily Mail" UK tabloid, April Brucker has been just desperately seeking “Mr. Okay”." April and her puppet sidekick May Wilson have extended holiday greetings to a long line of “Mister Not-So-Okays” in their debut recording, “Merry Christmas, I’m So Glad I Didn’t Marry You!." April and her Valley Girl dummy May Wilson collaborated with The World Famous Ink Spots on the single "That's the Way It Is," a reprise of the classic 1945 recording famously performed as a duet with Ella Fitzgerald and Ink Spots lead singer Bill Kenny. Both recordings are available on major streaming platforms.
April earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Acting at New York University's Tisch School and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing & Screenwriting from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the author of “Don’t Read My Lips!” and “I Came, I Saw I Sang.
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Dummies on The Street E5
1m 51s
On this episode of "Dummies on The Street," April Brucker, America's foremost female ventriloquist, and gold digger valley girl May Wilson chat with conventioneer John Finn from Ireland.