Khaleda Noon

Khaleda Noon is an award-winning curator and the visionary Founder & Artistic Creative Director of Theatre of the Oppressed Scotland & Hip Hop Education (TOSCOT). She is an antiracist leader, strategist with over two decades of experience driving systemic change through advocacy, innovation, and lived experience.

Her work is grounded in lifelong antiracist practice and unlearning, shaped by her own lived experience of growing up in Scotland as a care-experienced woman of colour. This intersectional perspective informs her leadership and underpins her unwavering commitment to equity, justice, and systemic transformation. she has led transformative initiatives that directly confront structural injustice across education, mental health, employment, and the arts.

With over two decades of experience, she has established groundbreaking national programs for young people, including anti-racist education for schools and a racially informed mental health service, leveraging strategic leadership and community input, propelling advocacy efforts and influencing policy reforms.

In her work, she is dedicated to creating and implementing projects that use performance as a catalyst for understanding and action. She has trained with Dr Phil Green, (Derby University) Julian Boal (Theatre of the Oppressed) and Rhys Dennis (Movement, Creation & Performance).

For three and half years she was a Steering Group member and Treasurer of the Baobab Foundation—the UK’s largest funder of Black and Global Majority organisations—and now a member of Creative Scotland's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory panel. Her practice is defined by courage, creativity, and a refusal to accept the status quo in systems historically dominated by whiteness, classism, and ableism.

From staging performances to specialising in forum theatre, she focuses on driving positive transformations in Scotland. Through these initiatives, she has raised over 4 million for Black and Global Majority young people, directing resources towards uplifting communities. By harnessing the power of performance and Theatre, she delves deep into self-reflection and exploration, fostering a deeper understand to fight against oppression social injustice and inequity.

Khaleda founded TOScot to tackle the complexities of otherness, through performance, audience interaction and exploration of solutions, reshaping dull training and resources into participatory experiences rich in aesthetics, with a focus on humanising education on racism, ableism, classism, and oppression.