Annika Stenstedt (she/her) is a New York based, California raised actor and musical theatre writer/composer. She grew up doing community theater in the Bay Area, and wrote her first full musical in high school, which was produced by Alameda High School in her senior year. She earned her BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in May of 2023, having trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Department of Drama’s New Studio on Broadway. Recent credits include Bandstand (Mrs. Adams), Stage Door (Judith, Pat), Legally Blonde (Kate, u/s Vivienne), and Head over Heels (Ensemble, u/s Pamela). An excerpt of Annika’s most recent written piece, ROSIE: A New Musical, was presented at the New Studio on Broadway Virtual Freeplay Festival in 2022, and in the Fall of 2023 Annika joined Pixel Playhouse (as seen on Youtube and Tiktok) as a lyricist. Her first videos for Pixel Playhouse are expected to launch this fall. As a female musical theatre writer, Annika aspires to write musicals about complex and powerful women, for a creative community that has historically been dominated by men.