Shahid Nadeem is a Pakistani playwright who has written and directed plays on social and human rights issues, mostly for his theatre for social change group, Ajoka. A collection of his plays was published by Oxford University Press, Pakistan in 2008. Shahid has been a fellow at the Getty Research Institute (2001) and National Endowment for Democracy (2014-15). He was awarded President of Pakistan’s Pride of Performance award in 2009.