Omar Khan is a writer actor based in East London. In 2022 he wrote and starred in an award-winning short film funded by Netflix (Queen of Diamonds).

This led him to be commissioned by the National Youth Theatre – where he was already a member as an actor from 2020 – with his debut offering (Blue Kimera) resulting in 2 highly acclaimed sell out shows in August 2024, now being transferred to famed fringe theatre The Omnibus for a 3-week run in Autumn 2026.

In October of 2023 he won an International Emmy Award, namely the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Screenwriting Award for an unaired drama pilot (Pocket Man).

He was recently one of the lead writers in a writer’s room for both seasons of the ITVX Sitcom (Piglets), season 2 of which is currently in post-production. In late 2024 he was selected as part of the UK Next Wave Genre Lab – a development initiative by Film Constellation through the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, made possible with National Lottery funding to develop his horror feature (Leech).

More recently he was selected as part of the inaugural cohort of Abi Morgan’s Little Chick writer’s retreat where he spent a week developing a show (The Nearly’s) with Abi herself and Head of Development at HeyDayTV, Sue Gibbs.

He also runs a writer’s workshop, BACKROOM, which champions new writing and has staged 2 sell out shows at the Bush Theatre in the summer of 2025.

Omar was also commissioned in early 2026 to write the first ever NYT REP Company short film (Fiver), directed by 2-time Olivier nominee Milli Bhatia.

Awards

International Emmy Award Winner – The Sir Peter Ustinov Screenwriting Award (2023) – Unaired drama pilot – “POCKET MAN”

Queen of Diamonds won the following:

Raindance Open Shorts Night 2023 – Official Selection

London Indian Film Festival 2023 – Official Selection

UK Film Review Awards 2023 – Official Selection

Paris Film Awards 2023 – Best Picture

London Movie Awards 2023 – Best Drama

International Film Awards 2023 – Best Drama

Golden Fern Film Festival 2023 – Best Romantic Short

Milan Gold Awards 2023 – Honourable Mention