About
Nimer Rashed is an award-winning writer/director working in film and theatre.
His plays include Wild Horses (Theatre503) and Itchycoo Park (winner of Soho Theatre’s Westminster Prize), and television scripts include The Great McGinty (winner of the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award at the International Emmy Awards), and The Marvellous Ascendancy of Jerome J Knight (shortlisted for the BBC’s College of Comedy).
Nimer’s UK Film Council-funded short film Baghdad Express starring Georgina Leonidas and Riz Ahmed premiered at the London Film Festival and has gone on to screen at festivals worldwide, and his follow-up short Derek: The Last Flamingo won the second prize in the Bahamas 14 Islands Film Challenge, judged by Nik Powell, Finola Dwyer, and Bharat Nalluri.
In addition to his writing work, Nimer works as a script reader and consultant for clients including Warner Bros Pictures, Working Title Films, and Optimum Releasing. He is a juror for the International Academy of Television of Arts & Sciences, and is represented by David Higham Associates.
