about annika!

(ah-nih-kah)

“What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?”

Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

what you need to know in my opinion:

  1. I grew up in a small town in east TN & have been acting since I was six years old when I starred as Chicken Little in a play called “Poultry in Motion”. Obviously I unfortunately peaked then and am now playing a game of catch up until the end of time

  2. Got my B.F.A. in Musical Theatre at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN which I graduated with in the year of our lord 2020

  3. I live in New York now & I’ve been working professionally for about seven years! I’ve worked in NYC, London, Boston, Nashville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Pennsylvania, and some other obscure places :)

  4. If you have interest in working with me:

    I act because it is challenging, it connects people in a profound way, it teaches empathy, and it’s my favorite thing in the world to do. I am a believer in “failing gloriously” (making bold choices in rehearsal even if they are ‘wrong’), curiosity, text work, and finding engaging, honest connection onstage and on camera.

  5. I am also a self taught visual artist, a rock climber, a barista, kind of a guitarist, a lover of outer space, and my favorite color is yellow. My coffee order is an oat milk latte with honey and cinnamon and my favorite books are Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and The Once and Future King by T.H. White.