Karim Khan

Karim Khan 

Karim is a screenwriter and playwright, based in Oxford. Karim has written on S03 and S06 of ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL (C5/PBS), for which he won the Best Episodic Debut award in 2023. He has been in several writer's rooms for companies including House Productions, Mammoth, Parti Productions, BBC Studios, and Playground. His sell-out play BROWN BOYS SWIM won a Fringe First, and BBC Popcorn award at Edinburgh Festival 2022, and he is currently adapting it for TV with A24. Karim is also currently preparing to direct his debut short film with Amazon Prime Video and the NFTS.  

In 2022, he was awarded the inaugural Pillars Artist Fellowship - sponsored by Netflix and Amazon studios and supported by Riz Ahmed’s LeftHanded Films. Karim is currently in development on a number of original projects, including a project with his mentor Mike Bartlett as part of the ITV/Dancing Ledge/ScreenSkills writers’ initiative. 

For theatre, Karim has upcoming productions, including BEFORE THE MILLENNIUM with the Old Fire Station, and SWEETMEATS with Tara Theatre/Bush Theatre. He is currently on attachment with the Royal Court Theatre and the National Theatre, for which he is writing new plays, and he was part of the Soho Six. His writing credits include CORROSIVE (Pegasus Theatre, 2019), BEYOND SHAME (Derby Theatre, 2018) and ORANGE JUICE (The Pleasance, Burton Taylor Studio, 2017). His work is published with Methuen. 

Karim is also an MA Screenwriting graduate (2019) from the National Film and Television School with a scholarship sponsored by Toledo Productions and Channel 4.