‏Anike Tourse‏

Anike Tourse is the writer and director of award winning short film short film "America;I Too," has written for daytime serial "One Life to Live" and for sitcom series "Girlfriends". Anike has written and produced multilingual videos and public service announcements for the Immigrant Rights Movement. Anike's projects in development include feature film America's Family, about the mixed-status and mixed-ethnic Diaz family journeying toward American integration as they battle through family separation and animated short film called "Frances the Fish" about the little fish that could. Anike has penned and performed several solo shows touring her productions across the country as well as to the Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Festival; the largest international theater festival in the world, on a national Nigerian tour sponsored by the 7-UP Bottling Company and is the playwright of stage play "No Milk Today" which premiered at the Fermentation Fest in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Anike earned her undergraduate degree from Bates College and Master of Fine Arts degree from The Ohio State University.