Kimia Karachi had 20 years of dance experience but was just starting to act when she joined Hart House Theatre, intimidated because everyone else seemed older. She spent three years on the executive of the Hart House U of T Festival of Dance and went on to chair the Hart House Student Theatre Committee.
Her credits since 2018 include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tomorrow Love, A Doll's House, When All This Is Over and Chamber Music. She also sat on the Colourism in Ballet panel, and served as Event and Outreach Coordinator through the Work Study Program, helping run the Dougie Awards, named for Director of Theatre and Performing Arts Doug Floyd.
Karachi graduated in 2022 with a specialist degree in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and holds a Bachelor of Education to teach drama in secondary school. She won the University of Toronto Student Leadership Award and the Judi Schwartz Memorial Scholarship, and now works as an acting coach at The Actors Room, a studio in Vaughan. As she says, "You don't need experience to belong."
Reported from How U of T alum and rising star Kimia Karachi found her community at Hart House Theatre, by Megan Wykes (U of T Alumni News, September 1, 2026).
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