Ahsan Naeem is a former music industry executive turned screenwriter, working across stage and screen.

Born in Manchester to Pakistani parents and raised in Manchester and Los Angeles, he currently resides in Paris, France. 

Ahsan began his professional life working with some of Manchester’s most luminous musical names including New Order’s Peter Hook and Andy Rourke & Mike Joyce, formerly of the Smiths. 

In 2008, whilst working as an A&R executive for Columbia Records, Ahsan was given the opportunity to write a one-act play for a small independent theatre company in Antwerp, Belgium.  The resulting play, ‘DATE ME’, was given a six-month run in Antwerp’s Arenberg Schouwburg Theatre, before the producers took it on the road in the United States. 

The process of writing ‘DATE ME’ gave Ahsan the bug.  In 2015 he decided to leave behind his career in the music industry and roll the dice as a writer.  It was a decision born out of a lifelong desire to create, rather than facilitate other people’s creativity.  He began to slowly build a body of work, writing and creating original TV-show ideas and movie screenplays. 

In 2017 actress Toni Collette optioned Ahsan’s script “STATE LOTTERY” to her production company as a vehicle for herself.

In early 2019 MGM Studios put Ahsan’s original television series ‘THE BAKER’S SON’, which is the tale of a modern Moroccan crime family, into development.  The project is a European co-production between MGM Studios, French producers We Make and Isolani Pictures and Belgium’s Jonny De Pony.

Also in 2019 Ahsan’s original television series ‘EDGE’ was put into development in the UK by British tv luminary Tony Wood at Buccaneer Media and former Channel 4 commissioner Dominic Schreiber, now at Canada’s Reel One Entertainment / Newen . 

In his spare time Ahsan is the producer and host of the ’93:30’ podcast, dedicated to his passion for Manchester City Football Club. 

He’s currently represented by Patrick Child at Independent Talent Group.