Reena Dutt is an American audiobook narrator and director born in New Jersey, raised in the Carolinas, India, and Arizona. She was a Featured Audiobook Review and Recommendation (Kirkus Audiobook Reviews) for her narration of Nina McConigley's "How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder", her performance as two American teens sisters and their Indian extended family being called "impeccable". Reena is also an Earphones Award winner for the multi-narrator "What Happened to Rachel Riley" another necessary book about teen harassment in school. She is the product of a family buffet of languages - Bengali, Tamil, Marathi - and pays keen attention to language nuances due to her ability to read in Devanagari (Hindi Script). She loves dialects including those from Paris, Dublin, England-based varieties and Sydney - and enjoys being a chameleon behind the microphone. Dutt has narrated for Penguin Random House, Simon&Schuster, and Harper Collins to name a few.

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As an audiobook director, she has had the absolute honor of working with folx like January LaVoy, Danny Campbell, Sophie Amos, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Kyla Garcia, Soneela Nankani, Deepti Gupta, Kevin R. Free and authors Samin Nosrat, Jane Maire Chen, Frank Abe, and Anne Anlin Cheng.

 

Reena is also a regional theatre and film director. Reena studied acting at the William Esper Studio in New York, and has worked on camera with folx like Henry Winkler, Patricia Arquette, Ty Burrell, Albert Brooks, Kelsey Grammar, and the late Carol Ann Susi (aka Howard's mother on the Big Bang Theory). 
 

Fellowships/Memberships: AFI DWW+, LA Performance Practice, Drama League, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Directors Lab West, SFFilm, former South Asian Community Liaison for Ford Amphitheatre.