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Education: University of California, San Diego (MFA in Acting), Point Park University (BA Theatre Arts). Acting: The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, The City Theatre, Barrington Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Co, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Mark Taper Forum. Television credits include starring in the upcoming limited series “Invitation to a Bonfire” on AMC. Playwriting: Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk Award), Good Grief, The Homecoming Queen, and Nike or We Don’t Need Another Hero. Good Grief (Kilroys List 2016, Semi Finalist Princess Grace, Humanitas Award) was produced at Center Theatre Group (the Kirk Douglas) in Los Angeles (2017) and Off-Broadway at The Vineyard Theatre (2018), which Anyanwu also starred in. NIKE (Kilroys List 2017) was workshopped at The New Black Fest in conjunction with The Lark, The Strand Festival, A.C.T, Space on Ryder Farm, and New York Stage and Film. The Homecoming Queen (Kilroys List 2017, Leah Ryan Finalist) had its world premiere at The Atlantic theater in 2018, which had a sold-out run. She also recently wrote and starred in her play The Last of the Love Letters at The Atlantic Theatre Company (2021). Anyanwu has also received residencies from LCT3, Space on Ryder Farm, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film, and Page 73. She is also commissioned with NYU, Two Rivers, The Old Globe, Steppenwolfe, The Atlantic Theatre, and is recipient of the Creative Rebuild New York program, where she will be an artist in Residence with Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre.