Anya Reiss (born 1991 in London) is a British playwright.
The youngest writer to have a play staged in London, a graduate of the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme, she had her first play Spur of the Moment staged there in the Upstairs Jerwood Theatre in July 2010, directed by Jeremy Herrin. The play went on to win the 2010 TMA Award for Best New Play; the Evening Standard and the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright.
Her second play The Acid Test was staged in 2011, again at the Royal Court Theatre; it was directed by Simon Godwin.
In 2012, she adapted Chekhov's The Seagull for Southwark Playhouse. She also wrote a play for the National Theatre's Connections season called Forty Five Minutes.
In 2014, so far she has written fourteen episodes of EastEnders.
Every time you speak
a stream of bullshit fall to the ground
and every time you breathe
I can smell the burning embers of truth all around
Every time you cry
One tear is always shed for yourself
and every time you vie for adoration
you get farther from yourself
Now I don't know how to rectify the situation
created by your infatuation with yourself
Every time I think
I know what's being said
I'm thrown for a loop after loop after loop
and it's messing with my head
and every time I think
I can see right through your lies
your verbal defecation throws me for another surprise
Now I don't know how to rectify the situation
created by your infatuation with yourself
Now I don't know how to rectify the situation