Simply Shakespeare was launched in 1999 by April Feld Sandor, a professional actor and teacher with more than 30 years theatre experience in the United States and in England.

April primarily teaches in Philadelphia and New York, although she travels throughout the United States as a Visiting Artist. April trained at London's Royal National Theatre (working with Michael Joyce, Patsy Rodenburg, Jeannette Nelson, Juliet Stevenson and Sir Peter Hall) as well as at New York's Circle in the Square and The Actors' Space (working with Elizabeth Browning, Alan Langdon and Dennis Patella). She started utilizing Shakespeare's First Folio in 1987, training and working with Patrick Tucker, a former Director of Royal Shakespeare Company, and the creator of London's Original Shakespeare Company. April also has training in LeCoq clowning and has worked with Pablo Vela, as well as with other movement/theatre disciplines including Theatre de Complicite and Bread & Puppet Theatre.

In addition to her own acting and directing career, April has been coaching/teaching since 1991 in the United States and England both privately, and with institutions such as: Elizabeth Browning Studio, People’s Light and Theatre Company, Circle in the Square – NYU, Rosemont College, New Jersey Academy of Performing Arts, Royal National Theatre Studio, Museum of Moving Image, Vagabond Acting Troupe, Princeton Rep’s Shakespeare in the Park and Shakespeare Downtown, as well as serving as a text and movement consultant for Deborah Jean Templin’s Unsinkable Woman: Stories & Songs from the Titanic, performed at Walnut Street Theatre. Her teaching focus is both on classical acting techniques for the modern actor, as well as modern acting techniques based on Stanislavski and Eric Morris. April has also taught first person interpretation skills for museum and historic theatre, dialect and gender physicality in character development, creative play and playwriting.

April is the writer and co-writer of a number of plays, including The Lyon’s Part, which she produced and directed in 2004.

Currently, April is obtaining her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and extending her own training network to include Neil Freeman (currently the foremost authority on First Folio) as well as others working with classical text and character development in the US, Canada and Europe. Delicious surprises are in store for the next two years. So watch this space!