ABOUT

Anya is a critically-acclaimed theatre composer, sound designer and musical director.  

 

Her specialism is telling politically challenging stories with a banging soundtrack.

 

Anya is part of the 2025-26 cohort at Regents Park Open Air Theatre's Treehouse Project for Emerging Artists. Her recent sound design and composing commissions include two Edinburgh Fringe shows. The first is a new play about migration and Britishness called ‘The Jolly Fisherman’ with OFFIES winners Kick It Anywhere (Underbelly, 2026) - ★★★★ the Stage and ★★★★ the Guardian. The second was 'Horrorshow', a gig theatre play about male friendship with Chronic Insanity (Summerhall, 2026) - Fringe First Gold Winner and ★★★★ TheReviewsHub. 

 

Anya was composer and MD for ‘Dead Girls Rising’, a new musical about surviving the patriarchy written by Maureen Lennon and directed by Alex Mitchell (UK tour, 2024). The show featured songs in an eclectic mix of genres – from rock, indie pop, doo-wop and folk to ballad.  ★★★★ The Herald and The Scotsman. 

 

Anya made her stage debut in gig theatre show, 'Sugarcoat', at the Southwark Playhouse and Vaults Festival (2023/2020) as actor, guitarist, associate composer and co-musical director. ★★★★ the Stage, the Guardian and Broadway World. Other MD credits include 'Shit Life Crisis' by Olivia Hannah and produced by Silent Uproar (UK tour, 2025 and Hull Truck, 2026). 

 

Anya is also lead songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player for the internationally acclaimed punk band Dream Nails. Their third album 'You Wish' (Marshall Records, 2026) was produced by Ali Chant (Yard Act) and hit the UK album charts at #97 to critical acclaim with ★★★★ from Dork and the Skinny. Their second album, ‘Doom Loop’ (Marshall Records, 2023) was produced by Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys).  The band have 12 million+ Spotify streams and have toured the UK, Europe and USA including performances at SXSW and Glastonbury. 

 

Anya’s compositions regularly feature on BBC Radio 1, BBC6 Music and Radio X, as well as international radio, film, TV and commercials.  She has also composed music for Queer’d Narrative (the Apple Tree, 2019-20), arranged music for Damsel In The Bush (Bush Hall, 2021), composed music for podcasts and even written a viral TikTok song for makeup primer, despite not really understanding to this day what primer is. 

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