Anika Nayak (She/They) is a Boston based theater artist focusing on Stage Management, Lighting Design, Electrician Work, and Teaching Artistry.

Anika’s love for theater began as a young child taking classes at Wheelock Family Theater and traveling the world with ANIKAYA Dance Theater. They grew up surrounded by art and with a deep love and admiration for creative language and communication. Her work in technical theater began at age 9 with a prop internship and blossomed from there. Since then, Anika has found a deep passion for stage management, sewing the pieces of theater into a tapestry of stories.

Anika focuses on creating non hierarchical and collaborative spaces in which theater and art can be created and experienced as what she believes is at it’s core, a universal language of being.

Anika is currently the Production Manager at Arrow St Arts, an Artistic Director for the Pelham Community Teen Theatre program, the Technical Director and Stage Manager for ANIKAYA Dance Theatre, and the Production Stage Manager and returning teaching artist for Wheelock Family Theatre’s Teen Ensemble.

Their work has taken them throughout Massachusetts as well as internationally to Ramallah (Palestine), Cape Town (South Africa), Maputo (Mozambique), and Kolkata (India).

She is currently pursuing a certificate in Intimacy Direction and Choreography as the next step in expanding her theater repertoire and creating safe and inclusive workspaces.

For more information on upcoming projects, please visit the What’s New page! For a full resume, see below.