Anya Beyersdorf

HLA HS 2025

Film/Television Writer

Anya is the creator of FAKE/writer on APPLE CIDER VINEGAR (Netflix).

FAKE starred Asher Keddie and David Wenham and broke all streaming and subscription records for Paramount+ and was nominated for six AACTA awards, including best series and screenplay, and won the AWGIE award for best series at the Writers Guild awards. Anya also wrote episode 4 of global top ten Netflix smash hit APPLE CIDER VINEGAR created by Samantha Strauss and starring Kaitlyn Dever.

Anya’s other TV credits include several high-profile TV series including THE TWELVE S2 starring Sam Neill, the AACTA and AWGIE Award-winning series FIRES for ABC and NBC International; EDEN for Stan with Bryan Elsey (SKINS) and THE BLACK HAND presented by Anthony La Paglia for ABC.

Anya’s UK/AUS co-production short film IT’S ME was commissioned by producer Lee Magiday (THE LOBSTER, THE FAVOURITE) starring Maxine Peake and Russell Tovey and premiered at the Manchester Film Festival in 2020.

Anya has won three Australian Writer’s Guild (AWGIE) Awards: Anya’s show FAKE won best series in 2024; she also collected an AWGIE for FIRES best series in 2023, and PARADISE in 2014. 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 (Oscars 2016), was shortlisted for the Sundance Labs and Austin Film Fest and was featured on the inaugural “Aussie” Black List in 2018.

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