Bee Gul

Bee Gul is an award-winning Pakistani writer and director whose work moves fluidly between theatre, television, and film, engaging deeply with questions of gender, intimacy, power, and moral ambiguity. In television, she has written some of the most critically acclaimed dramas of recent years, including Talkhiyaan, Pehchaan, Kaun Qamar Ara, Firdous ki Dozakh, Dar Si Jaati Hai Sila, Working Women, Raqeeb Se, and her most recent serial, Ek Aur Pakeezah. Her writing has been recognized with the Best Telefilm Writer Award (HUM Telefilm Awards, 2015) and the LUX Style Awards for Best TV Writer and Best Drama Writer (2019). Her theatre works—Bedroom Conversations, Marney Sey Pehlay Janat, Pandra Minute Aur, and Badal Gaye Ho—are noted for their intimacy, formal risk, and originality, placing her among the few distinctive contemporary playwrights in Pakistan. In film, she has written Laloolal.com and Intezar. Her short film Jamun Ka Darakht (The Java Plum Tree) won Best Film and Best Script at the Cannes World Film Festival 2024. She has also created the web series The Pink Shirt (SXSW Sydney 2023) and Teen Tara. Bee Gul teaches at the National College of Arts, Lahore, and serves as Project Head of Khan Academy Urdu (Pakistan Chapter).