Elizabeth Kuti

Elizabeth Kuti was born in Cheshire in 1969. She lived in Dublin from 1993 to 2004, where she studied at Trinity College and then worked as an actress with a number of Irish theatres and companies (including Corn Exchange, Loose Canon, Rough Magic, the Peacock, the Abbey and the Lyric Theatre, Belfast). Her first play, The Whisperers, a completion of Frances Sheridan’s 18th century comedy A Trip to Bath, was produced by Rough Magic in 1999 (Irish tour; Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh). Other writing includes Treehouses which was produced at the Peacock in 2000; and subsequently at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter (2001). It has now been produced in the U.S, and twice more in the U.K. It won second prize in the Susan Smith Blackburn Awards for the year 2000 and the BBC Radio Drama prize in the Stewart Parker Awards 2000. The Countrywoman was produced by Upstate Theatre Project (Civic Theatre, Dublin and Drogheda Arts Centre, 2000). May Child was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 starring Patricia Routledge (July 2004). Current work in progress includes two radio-play commissions, The Glasswright for Radio 4, and Mr Fielding’s Scandal-Shop, for Radio 3. Elizabeth Kuti is married with two sons and is currently a lecturer in drama at the University of Essex.

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