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Humnah (she/her) is a queer, British South Asian, female producer. She is excited by work that celebrates life and intersectionality and focuses on telling stories that incite joy.
Humnah is the Lead Producer for Pink Milk Theatre, a new theatre company looking at underrepresented stories from queer voices in the theatre industry, focusing on telling stories by global majority queer creatives. She was the Lead Producer on the critically acclaimed iterations of ‘A Splash of Milk’ and 2022 UK tour of ‘Naughty’.
Humnah was Interim Producer at Theatre503, for 'The Great Privation: How to flip ten cents into a dollar'. She was previously the in-house Assistant Producer. During her time there, she was Assistant Producer on ‘A Woman Walks Into a Bank’, Producer on Rapid Write Responses for ‘These Demons’ and ‘ A Woman Walks Into a Bank’ and Lead Producer on their Spring Short Season 2024.
She was previously on Stockroom’s Freelance Producer’s Fellowship for New Writing Programme as well as being selected as an Early Career Producer by Tara Theatre for their Global Majority Producer Development Roundtable (November, 2022).
Most of her work has found her in Theatre, however Humnah has also worked in Film. She is one of the Creative Directors and Founding Members of Production HAKS. Under the company name, she was a Director for 'Notify' (nominated at London International Monthly Film Festival, 2021) and a Producer on 'Mixed Signals' and 'Frightful Productions'. In 2021, she joined Media Trust’s Creativity Works Futures programme, through which she went on to work alongside Media Trust and Buzz Films for the London Community Foundation: London Impact Awards (2022).
Humnah was selected by Stage One for Bridge The Gap (2023 - 24) and is thrilled to be supported by the Stage One Bursary Scheme for New Producers. Humnah is also a Mental Health First Aider, qualified by MHFA England.