Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa

Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa OAM is a writer, performer, producer and cultural leader based in Boorloo. Her work as a multi-form artist for the last decade has been widely recognised – including at the Performing Arts WA Awards (2020), Mona Brand Writing Awards (2022), WA Multicultural Awards (2022) and Australian Sikh Awards (2023). Her passion for storytelling began as a finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam (2014), semi-finalist on Australia’s Got Talent (2016) and winner of The Moth GrandSLAM (2019).

Her poetry and community projects have led her to tour globally and across the nation – including supporting Missy Higgins and L-FRESH the Lion on their national tours, and Sukhjit premiered her sell-out theatre show ‘Fully Sikh’ with Barking Gecko Theatre Company and Black Swan Theatre Company (2019). She has been developing her comedy series ‘What Would Suki Do?’ with support from ABC TV and is currently producing ‘A Hairy Tale’, a documentary exploring female body hair.

Her debut hip-hop single ‘Collectables’ is now streaming on global music platforms, and her debut novel Fully Sikh: hot chips and turmeric stains (Upswell Publishing) is available now. Sukhjit is the Executive Director of The Blue Room Theatre and has been selected to be in Creative Australia’s 2024-25 Creative Leadership cohort.