Actress Anya Beyersdorf first came to attention in 2008 when indie-magazine Dazed and Confused touted her their rising star to watch after her first feature Rats and Cats premiered at the Melbourne International film Festival, and sold out festivals across the USA and UK, before being released nationally in cinemas across Australia to become a cult film.

After winning the Marten Bequest Prize for Acting in 2008 as well as the International Theatre Institute’s theatre scholarship, she moved to Berlin where she was a guest at Berlin’s biggest and most prestigious theatre the Deutsches Theater under Bulgarian master director Dimiter Gotscheff.

Since returning from the theatres of Berlin at the beginning of 2010 she has shot lead roles in Triple Happiness (Aaron Wilson) and performed at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh in the Magic Lantern Picture Theatre as The Tragic Usherette & Hostess of the Deluxe Spiegeltent at the Famous Spiegeltent.