Zahida Rahemtulla
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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Website: https://www.zahidarahemtulla.com/
Photographer: Not necessary, if you want: Shehin Rahemtulla
Born in Burnaby, BC, Zahida Rahemtulla later spent years living in Metchosin, Abu Dhabi, and Toronto. Her first play, The Wrong Bashir, a mistaken-identity comedy about Ismailis, premiered in Vancouver and Toronto to critically acclaimed, sold-out runs (Touchstone Theatre, 2023 and Crow’s Theatre, 2024). Her second play, The Frontliners, a comedic drama about refugee resettlement, won the Fringe New Play Prize, a Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Award, Theatre BC’s Play of Special Merit Award, and was runner-up for the national Voaden Prize in Playwriting. It will premiere in Vancouver in 2025. Zahida is currently working with Nightswimming Theatre and Talk is Free Theatre to create new acting training programs for community actors of colour over the age of 55 to build capacity in this demographic. Zahida teaches and is currently a faculty member in the Community Development and Outreach Department at Capilano University. She also works at Blind Tiger Comedy in access.
