Nikki Shaffeeullah

Nikki Shaffeeullah (she/her) is a theatre-maker, facilitator, equity worker, and community-engaged artist. Her work has included serving as Artistic Director of the award-winning community arts company The AMY Project; Editor-in-Chief of the national journal alt.theatre; Assistant Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre; and as a founding member of Confluence Arts Collective, an artist-activist group committed to transformative justice and a world without prisons. She is currently deepening her directing craft and artistic leadership skills through Why Not Theatre’s ThisGen Fellowship, and was previously a resident of Canadian Stage’s director development program. Through her collective Undercurrent Creations, Nikki creates and produces new theatrical work, and sector development initiatives for equity-seeking artists. A facilitator and equity trainer working in social movement spaces, Nikki works with groups across the country, and honed her skills in the Judith C Jones Fellowship for Trainers of Colour with Philadelphia’s Training for Change. Nikki has an MFA from the University of Alberta and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators. A queer Indo-Caribbean settler born and living in Tkaronto, Nikki’s work is informed by a family who loves music, puns, food, and justice. She believes art should disrupt the status quo, centre the margins, engage with the ancient, dream of the future, and be for everyone.