Anya Beyersdorf

Anya Beyersdorf is an Australian actressturnedwriterdirector born in Armidale New South Wales In 2014 she won an AWGIE Award the Monte Miller Award for her screenplay Paradise at the Australian Writers Guild Awards In 2016 she was awarded one of four inaugural Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowships by the Sydney Film Festival She was also a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting Semifinalist Beyersdorf trained in acting and directing in the theatres of Berlin after winning the Marten Bequest Prize for Acting for 20082009 working under Bulgarian director Dimiter Gotscheff on the play The Powder Keg at Der Haus der Berliner Festspiele as well as traveling and studying performance in Poland Denmark and the USA Beyersdorf was one of eight actresses who played the title character Angie in John Winters directorial debut feature film Black White Sex It was her second feature film after Rats and Cats in 2007 Beyersdorf has acted in six short films including playing the role of Emma in Emma and the Barista on ABC TV She played the lead role in the Australian Film Commission short film Loves Labour which was nominated for a Dendy Award in 2007 She also played the role of Tamara in the short film Dugong which was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award in 2007