Anika Meeusen is a Taiwanese-American actress, writer, producer, and musician, based in New York City.

She 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.

Currently, Anika is working on developing her own short film titled LIVING. A story about two sisters from Taiwan who become estranged after one of them chooses to immigrate to America in the summer of 1993. Seventeen years later, they reunite in Upstate New York and are forced to confront the differing worlds that now exist between them.

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.

In her work, Anika focuses on telling stories that sit in realism and the quiet moments of our lives. She is fascinated by the Asian American experience and aims to shine a light on the stories of underrepresented faces through sound, poetry, and familial storylines.