Nikki Shaffeeullah (she/her) is a theatre & film artist, facilitator, researcher, writer, producer, and equity worker. 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. With the National Arts Centre – English Theatre, she conceived, curated and produced Stages of Transformation, a multi-year research and creative project exploring how theatre intersects with abolition movements and transformative justice. Nikki has also taught in the performance departments of University of Toronto Scarborough and the University of Alberta, and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Forum for Cultural Innovators. She produces sector-change projects through her organization Undercurrent Creations; is a founding member of Confluence Arts Collective, a group of artists-activists who believe in transformative justice and a world without prisons. 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. Other recognition includes the Patrick Connor Award; Toronto Arts Foundation’s Arts for Youth Award (for The AMY Project), and nominations for the Pauline McGibbon Award, the OAF Arts Educator Award, the PGC Emerging Playwright Award, and the Nancy Dean Playwriting Award. Nikki believes that art should disrupt the status quo, centre the margins, engage with the ancient, dream of the future, and be for everyone.