For the past decade, Erum Khan has cultivated a vast multidisciplinary practice, moving between the intersections of live performance and filmmaking. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts with Distinction from the University of Toronto where she studied Sociology, Cinema Studies, and Professional Writing & Communication.
Recently Erum was the Artistic Associate at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, a recipient of the Urjo Kareda Research grant through Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s Queer Emerging Artist Award, and a selected artist for the inaugural edition of the Loughborough Lake Writer's Retreat with Crow’s Theatre and Mongrel Media. Alongside Erin Brubacher, she co-created the company Generous Friend, a collaborative performance umbrella governed by the principle of ‘how things are made, shapes what is made’.
Her short films have premiered at The Toronto Queer Film Festival, Breakthroughs Festival, The Toronto Independent Film Festival and The Rendezvous with Madness Festival. She was a playwright with Nightwood Theatre’s Write From The Hip program, a co-facilitator of the TD Emerging Creators Unit at Paprika, as well as leading the Emerging Creators Unit & Emerging Artist Producers Series at Buddies In Bad Times.
Her play NOOR, directed by Erin Brubacher with original music by LAL and Anwar Khurshid, was presented at The Aga Khan Museum.
Erum’s past and current playwright/collaborator/creator credits include: CLEOPATRA (in development w support from Modern Times Stage Company, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre), elephant (bluemouth inc.), NOOR (Generous Friend/The Aga Khan Museum), patthar ki zabaan (Rhubarb Festival), Talk To Me (SummerWorks Lab / Generous Friend), and Becoming (Rhubarb Festival, Ottawa Fringe Festival).
Erum was a performer and original collaborator in the world premier production of Concord Floral (Brubacher/Spooner/Tanahill) presented at The Theatre Centre and then went on to be the Assistant Director for the piece at Canadian Stage and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
Much of her community-engaged work is underscored by a commitment to create space for youth to access and engage with the arts.
Recently Erum was the Artistic Associate at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, a recipient of the Urjo Kareda Research grant through Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s Queer Emerging Artist Award, and a selected artist for the inaugural edition of the Loughborough Lake Writer's Retreat with Crow’s Theatre and Mongrel Media. Alongside Erin Brubacher, she co-created the company Generous Friend, a collaborative performance umbrella governed by the principle of ‘how things are made, shapes what is made’.
Her short films have premiered at The Toronto Queer Film Festival, Breakthroughs Festival, The Toronto Independent Film Festival and The Rendezvous with Madness Festival. She was a playwright with Nightwood Theatre’s Write From The Hip program, a co-facilitator of the TD Emerging Creators Unit at Paprika, as well as leading the Emerging Creators Unit & Emerging Artist Producers Series at Buddies In Bad Times.
Her play NOOR, directed by Erin Brubacher with original music by LAL and Anwar Khurshid, was presented at The Aga Khan Museum.
Erum’s past and current playwright/collaborator/creator credits include: CLEOPATRA (in development w support from Modern Times Stage Company, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre), elephant (bluemouth inc.), NOOR (Generous Friend/The Aga Khan Museum), patthar ki zabaan (Rhubarb Festival), Talk To Me (SummerWorks Lab / Generous Friend), and Becoming (Rhubarb Festival, Ottawa Fringe Festival).
Erum was a performer and original collaborator in the world premier production of Concord Floral (Brubacher/Spooner/Tanahill) presented at The Theatre Centre and then went on to be the Assistant Director for the piece at Canadian Stage and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
Much of her community-engaged work is underscored by a commitment to create space for youth to access and engage with the arts.