After surviving a suicide attempt, Aisha, a Pakistani-Canadian student, battles her compulsive need for control. Diagnosed with depression, she adopts a checklist approach to curing the incurable. Watch the series on CBC Gem.

Festivals

• TO Web Fest (Winner: Best Series - Grand Prize, Best Writing - English
  Canadian Series, Best Actor - English Canadian Series)

• Sydney Web Fest (Nominated: Best Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor)

• New Zealand Web Fest (Nominated: Best Show, Best Directing, Best Writing,
  Best Acting)

• Melbourne Web Fest

• International South Asian Film Festival Canada

• Tasveer Film Market

• Rio Web Fest

Funding & Development

2022 TELUS Fund - Production Financing 

2021 OntarioCreates IDM Production Fund

2020 IPF Production Fund

2020 IPF x CMF Development Packaging Program

Credits

Created By: Rabiya Mansoor, Nisha Khan, & Marushka Almeida

Production Company: iThentic; Get Up Aisha Inc.; Window Dreams Productions

Watch Proof of Concept

Zubaira Baqri (30s, Brown Michael Scott) is a delusionally confident accountant who stumbles into a job at the homely Shyam Samosas. Just a cute Indian restaurant and totally NOT a front for the largest Indian Mafia family.

Funding & Development

2024 CMF Pre-Development Fund

2024 Bell Fund Slate Development Program

2022 OntarioCreates IDM Concept Definition Fund

Credits

Created By: Rabiya Mansoor, Nisha Khan, & Marushka Almeida

Production Company: Window Dreams Productions

Ambitious Layla Khan, former child star and current nobody, moves back in with her stubborn single mom and her snarky gamer cousin in an attempt to reboot her career through her self- created, self-released reality series.

Funding & Development

2023 Content London Drama Pitch Finalist

2022 Canada Media Fund Pre-Development Program

2021/2022 Bell Fund Slate Development Program

2021 Reelworld E20 Program

2021 Transmedia Zone Incubator

2021 JFL ComedyPro Stand Up & Pitch Finalist

2021 Breakthroughs Pitch Competition Finalist

2020 ReelWork Initiative Finalist

2020 TAC Media Artists Grant

2020 WIFT Scripted Digital Series Incubator

Credits

Created By: Rabiya Mansoor & Shreya Patel

Production Company: Window Dreams Productions

After she discovers she’s been catfished, Mina -- a messy bisexual Pakistani-Canadian woman -- starts a queer matchmaking service in hopes of finding the one before she ‘expires’ at 30.

Funding & Development

2022 Reelworld E20 Incubator

2022 Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative

2022 Bell Fund Slate Development Program

Credits

Created By: Rabiya Mansoor

Production Company: Window Dreams Productions

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Production Company: Cult Following Pictures

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BARON BINGE is where immersive theatre card games, sketch comedy, and clowning collide to bring you on a journey into the world of binge eating disorder through the eyes of vampires.

Funding & Development

2024 Canada Council for the Arts - Research and Creation

2023 Ontario Arts Council - Theatre Projects, Creation

2022/23 Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grants (Tangled Arts + Disability)

Credits

Created By: Rabiya Mansoor

Theatre Company: Poetic License Creations

We’ve aged out of being the Main Character, and it kinda really sucks. So we wrote a sketch show about it because why cry when you can cry while you laugh! …on stage, in front of everyone. We're a mashup of Somali/Korean/Palestinian/Pakistani Canadian perspectives from women and non-binary folks, and boy, our sketches don't hold back any punches. You may even experience a punch or two to the gut… with laughter! Come for the snarky blurb, stay for the weird (sometimes heartfelt) sketches, songs, and occasional video interlude. This is NOT your auntie's sketch show. (Or maybe it is.)

Funding, Development & Performances

2022 Toronto Fringe Festival*

2022 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Queer Pride Festival

2022 Why Not Theatre's RISER Toronto

2022 Canada Council for the Arts - Concept to Realization Grant

2019 Sketch Comedy Project Fund (Toronto Sketchfest/Pat & Tony Adams Freedom Fund for the Arts)

*Toronto Fringe Patron's Pick; David Seguin Memorial Award

Credits

Written & Performed By: Rabiya Mansoor; Surer Qaly Deria; Mona Hersi; Andie Hong; Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller

Swing: Arfina Lamy

Directed By: Liza Paul

Music Directed By: Ayaka Kinugawa

Stage Managed By: Patricia Tab

Lighting Design By: André du Toit

Costume Design By: Lucy Wong

Set Design By: Antonia Sinn

Produced By: Rabiya Mansoor

Theatre Company: Poetic License Creations

Dignify Me: An Audio Play centers on three Pakistani-Canadian women -- Sadia Khan (played by Sharada Eswar), Fauzia Khan (played by Oshini Wanigasekera), and Manal Khan (played by Rabiya Mansoor) -- as the two sisters navigate their mother's impending death through medical assistance in dying (MAID).

Presented in association with Mississauga Multilingual Fringe Festival.

Credits

Directed By: Lisa Karen Cox

Written By: Rabiya Mansoor

Urdu Translations By: Sharada Eswar

Sound Design By: James Bunton

Starring: Sharada Eswar; Oshini Wanigasekera; Rabiya Mansoor

Produced By: Rabiya Mansoor

Theatre Company: Poetic License Creations

Two sisters at a jam stall in Whitby clash over what the other should've done five years ago (and also how to sell their jam).

Funding & Development

2021 Driftwood Theatre's Digital Short Play Festival

2020/21 Driftwood Theatre's Beyond the Bard Playwrights Unit

Credits

Created By: Rabiya Mansoor

Theatre Company: Driftwood Theatre