Anya has been on the faculty at Atlantic Theater Acting School since 1998. She is a Master Teacher of Practical Aesthetics, an acting technique originally developed by William H. Macy and David Mamet, based on the teachings of Stanislavsky, Joseph Campbell and Aristotle. At Atlantic, Anya teaches Advanced Scene Study classes in Chekhov, Shakespeare, Throughline Technique, and Postwar British Drama, a class she developed based on her interest in Brecht’s legacy and the political theater movement that emerged in Britain in the wake of WWII.

Anya served for many years on the faculty at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and taught the plays of Anton Chekhov to the B.F.A. acting students at the Brooklyn College Acting Conservatory. She has several times been a guest artist at Harvard University’s Graduate Center for Advanced Theater Training- delivering the commencement address to the graduating M.F.A. actors in 2015- and served as master acting teacher to the M.F.A. acting students at Penn State Graduate Theater Program. 

Anya has taught master classes in Practical Aesthetics, Shakespeare, and the plays of Anton Chekhov to professional actors in Melbourne, Australia, ongoingly at The Elysian Theater in Los Angeles, and at Teatro Foro 37 in Mexico City, where she has worked recurringly since 2018.