Anika Meeusen is an Asian American actress and musician based in New York City.

Having originally grown up playing guitar, piano, and alto saxophone, Anika spent most of her younger years thinking she would grow up to be the next Joni Mitchell. It wasn’t until she learned how to sing that her love for acting blossomed. She began doing community theater in Upstate New York where she eventually realized that if she couldn’t pursue acting as her profession, then she didn’t want to do anything at all.

Anika is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts where she received a BFA in Drama and a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. In her time at NYU, she studied a multitude of acting method ranging from physical/experimental acting to Stanislavski’s ‘method’ acting.

Most recently, she made her Off-Broadway debut in RJ Theater’s workshop Fragments at The Flea Theater and was also seen in the world premiere of a new play by Aniello Fontano titled i’m sorry for your trouble at LSTFI.

Currently, Anika is working on developing her own short film titled LIVING. A story about two sisters who grew up taking care of each other in the same place but suddenly due to an extreme distance being placed between them (7,806 miles to be exact), struggle to figure out how to live without their mutual crutch of each other.

Anika finds great inspiration in movies such as Past Lives, Frances Ha, Paterson, Ladybird, Call Me By Your Name, Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, and most recently, Annie Baker’s Janet Planet.

She also gives credit to Joan Didion for reminding her that everything in life, big or small, is important to write about.