About Anike

Anike is a multicultural performance tour de force; acting and dancing with a Yoruba performance troupe in West Africa, directing Yemenite youth in Israel, and acting in television commercials, plays, and independent films in the United States.  She has penned several solo shows, touring her productionsacross the country and throughout the globe, including to the Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival; the largest international theater festival in the world, and on a national Nigerian tour sponsored by the 7-UP Bottling Company.  Anike has written for daytime serial One Life to Live, and for the sitcom series Girlfriends.  She has produced videos and commercial spots for the Immigrant Rights Movement and has written feature screenplay Valentina; the story of a Mexican-American girl who fights to keep her family united and in the U.S. just as she breaks through as a dawning Hollywood star. Anike just returned from an artist residency at the Wormfarm Institute in Reedsburg, Wisconsin where she wrote a new stage play MILK: A Journey of Recovery, Love, & Ice Cream.