Bio

Erum Khan is a performer, film and theatre maker, youth facilitator, film programmer and curator. She is the recipient of the 2019 Buddies In Bad Times Theatre Queer Emerging Artist award and was a member of the 2017-2018 Emerging Creators Unit at Buddies. In film, she currently works in the programming department at the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival and the Rendezvous With Madness Festival as well as serving as the 2017 Festival Programming Intern at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her short films have premiered at The Toronto Independent Film Festival and The Rendezvous With Madness Festival. She is currently a playwright with Nightwood Theatre’s Write From The Hip program and a co-facilitator of the TD Emerging Creators Unit at Paprika. Her play Noor, directed by Erin Brubacher with original music by LAL and Anwar Khurshid, was presented at The Aga Khan Museum in October 2018. She was a performer and original collaborator in the world premier production of Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill presented at The Theatre Centre in 2014. She then went on to be the Assistant Director for the piece in 2016 at Canadian Stage and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in 2017. Much of her community-engaged work is underscored by a commitment to create space for youth to access and engage with the arts. As the youth facilitator for Workman Arts’ “If You Ask Me” filmmaker mentorship program and as an adjudicator for the National Theatre School Festival, she seeks inspire open communication amongst artists of different backgrounds and experience levels, finding new ways to talk about the work that they are creating.