About Me
Hannah Ali Khan
Playwright and Screenwriter
Hannah Ali Khan is a Bristol-based writer for stage and screen with a love for the extraordinary stories of ordinary people. Her writing is personal, vibrant and accessible, blending drama with humour to create bold yet familiar characters rooted in today’s Britain. She is particularly interested in writing for and about young adults, British Asians, and women, reflecting the worlds around her and sharing intersectional experiences rarely seen onstage.
Hannah studied MA Drama Writing at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2022/23, and has taken part in several schemes including North Wall Catalyst (2022), Kali Theatre Discovery (2023/24), Channel 4 New Writers Scheme (2024/25), Exeter Northcott Elevate (2025) and Oxford Playhouse Playmakers (2025/26). She has been commissioned by Theatre West as part of Coralations (2025) and has written several plays including her one-woman play Cancer B*tch! which received Arts Council England funding for an R&D and work-in-progress performance in 2024 at Offbeat Festival in Oxford, where she was also selected as one of their Supported Artists.
Hannah is currently making final edits to her play Talluq (to belong to; to relate to) which she wrote for Oxford Plahouse Playmakers. The play asks what it means to be Pakistani in the UK today, through three strangers taking an Urdu class together and their mysterious tutor. Her play Cancer B*tch! has just received ACE funding for further development and will be shown in Oxford and Exeter in the autumn. Her play Spark will be produced by Theatre West in Spring 2027. She is also working on a film script, Little Devil Girl, and a TV pilot, Beautiful Ones.
Photo credit: Maggie at Akta Photography