Humira Imtiaz is a director, playwright, producer & creative technologist based in Greater Manchester. They sit at the intersections of multiple identities - working-class, British Kashmiri, Muslim, neurodivergent, agender, disabled - and that complexity is the engine of their work. 

Their practice brings together immersive storytelling & social impact, centring voices the arts has historically left out. Lived experience shapes everything: growing up in Northern England, navigating cultural dissonance between home and the world outside, and years of housing precarity that taught them more about resilience than any training programme ever could. 

Humira is currently leading The Kids Are Halal, a disabled-led Mixed Reality experience reimagining 1990s working-class, South Asian, Muslim childhood. Phase 1 R&D completed at FACT Liverpool, with audiences describing it as "heartwarming" and "one of the best prototypes" seen. The project is supported by AmplifyXR Labs (Belfast XR Festival), shortlisted for an Unlimited Open Award, and in partnership development with Mediale. 

Their latest project, Echoes of Satisaras, is a binaural audio experience exploring Kashmiri mythology, intergenerational memory and the migration stories connecting the valley to Northern England. In development now, the work weaves together Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim creation stories with voices of historical figures like the mystic poet Lal Ded. It places listeners inside the perspective of a blind British Kashmiri woman finally learning to hear her grandmother's stories - funny fragments, silly asides, tales that never quite made sense, but were never nonsense. Only waiting. 

Recent work spans immersive and traditional forms: Rootless Connections, an AI-assisted documentary on Kashmiri diaspora identity; Rabbit Hole, hybrid digital theatre with Feral Bird Theatre; the Metaverse Creation Lab with Women in Immersive Technologies Europe; and the Accessing New Technologies programme at the Young Vic, researching accessibility in XR. 

Accessibility isn't an add-on - it's the starting point. Designing & building work shaped by how different bodies and minds experience the world.  

Their work confronts algorithmic bias, champions cultural fusion, and keeps returning to the same question: what does belonging mean when you're always on the outside looking in?  

Humira is open to conversations about collaboration, commissioning and partnerships that share this vision.