ANIKA LARSEN is an actor, singer, director, writer and teacher who has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in national tours and regionally. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her role as Cynthia Weil in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, and she also appeared on Broadway in Almost Famous, Avenue Q, Xanadu, All Shook Up and Rent. Anika wrote and performed in a musical about her childhood growing up in Cambridge, MA with nine brothers and sisters from different races and countries. She released an album of lullabies for all ages called “Sing You to Sleep”, and she gigs with her trumpet-playing husband in the Larsen Maxwell Quintet.
Anika is on the board of the Broadway Green Alliance and she created and hosted “The Broadway Vlog to Save the Planet” for the Broadway Podcast Network, which showcases the theater community’s efforts to achieve the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainability. Anika’s favorite refrain: If theater can’t save the world, what can?