Lolita Chakrabarti is a British actress and writer who has worked extensively on stage and screen.
She lives in Edinburgh..
She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death .
Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You\'d Gone , The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox , The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave . www.lesataproductions.co.uk Maggie O\'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972.
They are currently in development with their first feature.
Their short film won Best Short Narrative at PAFF, Los Angeles 2012.
Lolita Chakrabarti also runs Lesata Productions with Rosa Maggiora.
It returned to the Tricycle in 2014 before having its US premiere at St Ann\'s Warehouse New York.
In 2012, Red Velvet was the first play performed under the Tricycle\'s new artistic director Indhu Rubasingham.
Writing credits include The Goddess for Woman\'s Hour on BBC Radio 4, Faith , Hope and Blue Charity , also on BBC Radio 4 and Last Seen - Joy for Slung Low and the Almeida.
Her acting screen credits include The Casual Vacancy , Jekyll and Hyde , My Mad Fat Diary season 3, Vera , Outnumbered , Hustle , Extras Christmas Special , Holby City , Silent Witness , Amnesia , William and Mary , Fortysomething , Bodies, and Forgiven .
Her most recent acting theatre credits include The Great Game , Afghanistan for The Tricycle, Last Seen - Joy for the Almeida, Free Outgoing for the Royal Court and John Gabriel Borkman for the Donmar Warehouse.
Lolita Chakrabarti is a British actress and writer who has worked extensively on stage and screen
