Akbar Khan’s
Scripted Universe

Written & created by Akbar Khan

Stories with
their fingerprints
still on them.

Original scripted podcasts, comedies, crime stories, and writing from one unruly creative universe.

Enter the universe ↓

Comedy / crime / desire / catastrophe

The shows

Pick your
beautiful disaster.

Three original pilots are now playing. Press play and enter the universe.

01Original series ↗
Stay With Me pilot artwork featuring Carmen Lopez, Detective Hersl, and Colin McTavish against the Baltimore skyline

Crime satire · comedy of manners

Stay With Me

Carmen Lopez, Detective Hersl, and Colin McTavish collide in a romantic pas de trois where crime, desire, and glorious tonal mismatches are all evidence.

Pilot episode24:28
02Original series ↗
Alt-Chat ensemble artwork set backstage in a theater dressing room

Political satire

Alt-Chat

A political movement run by theater kids. Ambition, ideology, and performance anxiety share the same badly lit stage.

Pilot episode31:42
03Original series ↗
Highly Flammable pilot poster featuring a family between a toxic mall and an erupting tropical volcano

Original comedy

Highly Flammable

Sharp characters, volatile situations, and an emotional ignition source hiding beneath every joke.

Pilot episode37:54
04Original series ↗
Artwork currently in witness protection

Satirical series

Real Housewives of Karachi

Status, family, performance, and spectacular social combustion—Karachi style.

Episodes & links coming soon
Stay With Me upcoming episode artwork featuring Detective Hersl, Carmen Lopez, and Colin McTavish with cereal-box evidence

Elsewhere in Charm City

More evidence.
More feelings.
More cereal.

The pilot opens the case. Future episodes widen the investigation, complicate the chemistry, and bring the cereal box into evidence.

More Stay With Me coming soon

Beyond the microphone

The writing room
has no walls.

I

Memoir · in progress

Memoir

A life recovered, examined, and written in Akbar’s own unmistakable voice.

In progress
II

Original work · forthcoming

PCCNA

A reserved home for the project. No text, audio, excerpts, or downloads will appear here while copyright confirmation is pending.

Copyright pending

About the creator

Akbar Khan writes toward the place where absurdity becomes truth.

Screenwriter, podcaster, memoirist, and architect of a singular scripted universe. These stories move between comedy and danger, intimacy and spectacle, the sacred and the completely ridiculous.

AKBAR KHAN