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 years and for the foreseeable future.  In her ninth year of full-time teaching at Covenant, she 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.  Since taking the stage at Covenant, she has been pleased to produce and direct such shows as The Crucible by Arthur Miller, You Can't Take it With You by Moss & Hart, The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson, and Emma adapted by Michael Bloom.  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 lead 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.  In the Logic school, she has directed one-act teams in the PSIA One-Act Competitions for the past four years.  She is the Troupe Director for the Thespians and Junior Thespian chapters at Covenant.   In the summer of 2019, she was blessed to be a part of the first Windows and Wonder Tour of England with thirteen Covenant students, Brett Tohlen, and Molly Graham.  April currently teaches Theatre Arts 1 & 2, One-Act Production,  Acting & Stagecraft, and Advanced Production. Throughout the year, she produces and directs a Rhetoric School One-Act, a Logic School One-Act, in class Christmas productions, a Rhetoric Spring Show, and the Logic Shakespeare Festival play.

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.