Nikki Shaffeeullah (she/her) is a theatre & film artist, facilitator, producer, writer, and arts leader. She is currently the Director of Programming at Generator Performance. Her work has included serving as Artistic Director of The AMY Project; Editor-in-Chief of alt.theatre: cultural diversity and the stage; and Assistant Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre. Nikki has also taught in the performance departments of University of Toronto Scarborough and the University of Alberta. She has led large scale sector-change projects, through her organization Undercurrent Creations, at Generator, and elsewhere. Nikki conceived of and led the three year project Stages of Transformation with the National Arts Centre – English Theatre, which explored what the theatre sector can learn from abolition movements. She is a a founding member of Confluence Arts Collective, a group of artists-activists who believe in transformative justice and a world without prisons. Notable works by Nikki include “A Poem for Rabia,” a finalist for both the Playwrights’s Guild of Canada Emerging Playwright Award and the Nancy Dean Playwriting Award, which premiered at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre in 2023. She is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum for Cultural Innovators. Nikki holds an MFA in Theatre Practice from the University of Alberta, where her thesis won the Canadian Association for Theatre Research award for Intercultural Theatre, and a BA from McGill University. She has trained internationally with groups including Makhampom Foundation (Thailand) and Yuyachkani (Peru). A queer Indo-Caribbean artist born and living in Toronto, Nikki’s work is informed by a family who loves music, puns, justice, and food. She is grateful to live the complex, diverse metropolis of Toronto; land that been stewarded for many thousands of years by Indigenous peoples including the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Nikki believes that art should disrupt the status quo, centre the margins, engage with the ancient, dream of the future, and be for everyone.