TV roles have include Wheel of Time (Amazon), J K Rowling’s A Casual Vacancy (BBC1/HBO), Criminal (Netflix), Defending The Guilty (BBC), To Provide All People (BBC2), Delicious (Sky One), Born to Kill (CH4), Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (ITV), Vera (ITV), Jekyll and Hyde (ITV), My Mad Fat Diary 3 (E4), Death in Paradise (BBC1), One Night (BBC1), Smoke (Sky1), Outnumbered (BBC1), WPC Jamilla Blake in The Bill (ITV), Fortysomething (BBC), Extras and earlier this year she appeared in Season 2 of the hugely popular Sky series Riviera. Other theatre credits include Last Seen – Joy (Almeida Theatre) which she also wrote, The Great Game, Afghanistan (Tricycle Theatre), the lead role in Free Outgoing (Royal Court and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), John Gabriel Borkman (Donmar Warehouse), Grimm’s Tales (Young Vic) and Robert LePage’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Theatre). She appeared as Queen Gertrude, opposite Tom Hiddleston, in Sir Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (RADA), starred in Fanny & Alexandra at the Old Vic in 2018 and appeared in major BBC dramas including Vigil (BBC1) and Showtrial (BBC1). Lolita also worked as dramaturgist on Message in a Bottle, a show by Katie Prince and Sting, which opened at the Peacock Theatre in February 2020.Īs an actress Lolita has enjoyed a long and varied career. It opened to audiences at The Almeida in July 2021. Hymn, a play by Lolita about male love, that is neither physical nor romantic, starring Danny Sapani and Adrian Lester, streamed live from The Almeida and was broadcast on Sky Arts, during the coronavirus pandemic, to huge critical acclaim. The series was updated in July 2020, in the mist of the coronavirus, with a monologue written by Bernardine Evaristo and performed by Sharon D Clarke. Directed by Adrian Lester, it was a fitting tribute to an incredible history and starred Jade Anouka, Louise English, Dervla Kirwan, Ruth Madeley, Art Malik, Meera Syal, Sophie Stone and David Threlfall. Lolita curated The Greatest Wealth at the Old Vic in London in 2018, commissioning eight monologues of which she wrote one, about the NHS on its 70th birthday. Lolita won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, The Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and the AWA Award for Arts and Culture. Red Velvet was nominated for nine major awards including two Oliviers. It returned to the Tricycle in 2014, before transferring to St Ann’s Warehouse in New York and onto the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End, as part of Sir Kenneth Branagh’s Plays at the Garrick season. In 2012 Red Velvet premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in London. Invisible Cities also opened at the Brisbane Festival in September 2019. It was an ambitious and stunning production and a collaboration between Rambert dance company, 59 Productions and Lolita. In the same month, Invisible Cities premiered at the Manchester International Festival, which Lolita adapted from the classic novel by Italo Calvino of the same name. Based on the award winning novel by Yann Martell, which received ten Oscar nominations as a film, Life of Pi’s theatrical world premiere received huge critical acclaim. It was nominated for nine Olivier Awards and won five, including Best Play, it also won four awards at the UK Theatre Awards, including Best Play and Best Director. Lolita adapted the classic novel Life of Pi, which opened in London’s West End in December 2021, after premiering to 5-star reviews at the Sheffield Crucible in July 2019. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has carved out an innovative, diverse and long running career. Writing credits include Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn and Hamnet and acting credits include Hamlet, Vigil, Riviera, Showtrial and Amazon series Wheel of Time. Lolita Chakrabarti OBE is an award-winning playwright and actress.
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