Anya is a multi-AWGIE Award-winning screenwriter and is the creator and writer of a new TV series starring Asher Keddie and David Wenham, FAKE for Paramount+.
Other credits include the Netflix production APPLE CIDER VINEGAR for SeeSaw and Picking Scabs starring Kaitlyn Dever; THE TWELVE season 2 starring Sam Neill, the AACTA and AWGIE Award winning series FIRES for ABC and TAP (Tony Ayres Productions); Stan Original EDEN with Bryan Elsey (Skins) and documentary series THE BLACK HAND presented by Anthony La Paglia for the ABC. Anya has won two Australian Writer’s Guild (AWGIE) Awards: the first for PARADISE (2014) and again for FIRES in 2023. She was one of four inaugural winners of the Lexus Short Film Fellowship at Sydney Film Festival for HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN (2017).
Anya’s original feature script SERPENTINE was a semi-finalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Sundance Lab and featured on the inaugural “Aussie” Black List. Anya’s short film IT’S ME, a co-production between the UK and Australia, was commissioned by producer Lee Magiday (The Lobster, The Favourite), starring Maxine Peake and Russell Tovey, premiering at the Manchester Film Festival in 2020.
