Karim Khan

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Karim is a screenwriter and playwright, based in Oxford. Karim has written on S03 and S05 of ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL (C5/PBS) and has been in writer's rooms for with companies including House Productions, Mammoth, Parti Productions, BBC Studios, and Playground. His play BROWN BOYS SWIM won a Fringe First at Edinburgh Festival 2022 and he is currently adapting it for TV for the BBC and A24. 

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 will also develop a new TV project with his mentor Mike Bartlett as part of the ITV/Dancing Ledge/ScreenSkills writers’ initiative Karim is currently in development on a number of original projects and adaptations.

For theatre, Karim is currently one of Soho Theatre's "Six" and part of the Royal Court Writers Group where he is writing a new play on attachment. and his writing credits include CORROSIVE (Pegasus Theatre, 2019), BEYOND SHAME (Derby Theatre, 2018) and ORANGE JUICE (The Pleasance, Burton Taylor Studio, 2017). His latest play BROWN BOYS SWIM premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, where it won a Fringe First and the Popcorn Award before transferring to the Soho Theatre Oct ‘22. The play is published by 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.