Karim Khan

Karim is a screenwriter and playwright, based in Oxford. His sell-out play BROWN BOYS SWIM won a Fringe First, and BBC Popcorn award at Edinburgh Festival 2022, and was later optioned by A24. Karim is currently preparing to direct his debut short film with Amazon Prime Video and the NFTS.  

Karim has two upcoming world premieres: BEFORE THE MILLENNIUM at Old Fire Station in December 2025, and SWEETMEATS at the Bush Theatre in February 2026. 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 Soho Six. His past credits include CORROSIVE (Pegasus Theatre, 2019), BEYOND SHAME (Derby Theatre, 2018) and ORANGE JUICE (The Pleasance, Burton Taylor Studio, 2017).

For TV, 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 various TV writer's rooms. 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 an MA Screenwriting graduate (2019) from the National Film and Television School with a scholarship sponsored by Toledo Productions and Channel 4.