Brown Boys Swim

Karim Khan is a screenwriter and playwright, based in Oxford. He is in development on a number of original projects and adaptations and is working with New Pictures, Kudos, The Ink Factory, World Productions, Big Light and Left Bank Pictures. He has worked on two new recent commissions - Brown Boys Swim with The North Wall and Oxford Playhouse, and Sweetmeets with Rifco and Watford Palace Theatre. Karim graduated from the MA Screenwriting course at the National Film and Television School with a Toledo and Channel 4 scholarship. His stage credits include Corrosive (Pegasus Theatre, 2019), Beyond Shame (Derby Theatre, 2018) and Orange Juice (The Pleasance, Burton Taylor Studio, 2017). Karim was also playwright in residence at the North Wall. Karim was on the Soho Writer’s Lab, as well as the Royal Court Writer’s Group, and prior to this, attached to the Oxford Playhouse. He contributed to Radio 4 sketch show Sketchtopia(TX April 2018), and has written three short animation films, A Bird with No Legs, Pidgeon, and Cabin Pressure.