Rakhee Morzaria is a Toronto-based artist working primarily in film, television and live comedy/theatre. Instinct, play and rhythm are central to their practise.

Rakhee’s writing and theatre work is semi-autobiographical, often described as absurdist auto-fiction. They explore the systems they exist in, both from a marginalized experience and within one, while investigating contradictions within the diasporic experience.

They also works as an educator, director and facilitator of writing and acting workshops, centring an egalitarian lens to empower BIPOC voices through story-telling and character development.

Notable

- Sketch comedy and improv with Second City, Bob Curry Fellowship, Family & Touring Company

- 2018, wrote and starred in short film Be Right Back (Atlantic Film Festival)

- 2018/2019, wrote and starred in 13-episode digital-series, Note to Self, nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and Canadian Comedy Award. Co-produced with CBC.

- 2021- Writer on season 1 of Run the Burbs (CBC, Hulu)

- 2022 wrote and directed a comedic short film called Scaredy-Cat about a woman who tries to play out a scenario from a traditional romcom. Screened at the Imagine This World, Film Festival in New York and Filmi: Toronto’s South Asian Film Festival.  

-2021-2024 – Starred in Run the Burbs – 2x Canadian Screen nomination for Best Lead Performer in a Comedy

- 2024/2025 Co-written a live show called, “My Best Friends’ Friend” commissioned by Theatre Centre’s Comedy is Art Festival

-2025 - Juror for JFL (Just For Laughs) shorts festival

- 2024 – Starred in Dinner with Friends, dir. Sasha Lee-Henry, premiered at TIFF

- 2025/2026 - Wrote and presented an auto-fiction play called THIS WILL HEAL ME with sold out runs in Toronto and a show in London UK, at Playhouse East. Funding support from Nightwood Theatre and support from UK-based movement theatre SpyMonkey and voice work with acclaimed Canadian/Swiss vocalist Fides Krucker.

Note to Self

Canadian Comedy Award-nominated and Canadian Screen Award-nominated series, produced, written and starring Rakhee; a confident, but often misinformed second-generation Canadian…just trying to get it right.