Reena Dutt is a city girl with a country soul who believes in creating with a conscience, on and off the stage and screen. She is Dedicated to new and reimagined texts that catapult polarizing conversations through unexpected stories with the bodies, voices and life experiences of the underheard. 2022/2023:  THE HOMBRES by Tony Meneses (Artists Repertory Theatre), RENT (Coeurage Ensemble), AMERICAN FAST (Constellations Screen and Stage), YELLOW FACE (UC Riverside), THIS IS NOT A TRUE STORY (Artists At Play). New York:  ACCIDENTAL FEMINIST by Alaudin Ullah (Lenfest, Columbia University), BRUISED by Vivienne Glance (Development, Playwrights Realm), DirectorFest (A.R.T. New York, Drama League), UNTITLED ELEGY PLAY (Development, New Dramatists). Regional:  REFUGEE RHAPSODY by Yussef El Guindi (S/R, Artists Repertory Theatre). West Coast: UC Riverside, Greenway Court Theatre, East West Players, Sacred Fools. Assistant/Associate Director:  Manhattan Theatre Club (dir. Kwame Kwai-Armah, MTC, TBA), Cullud Wattah (dir. Candis Jones, The Public), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (dir. Jennifer Chang, The Fountain Theatre), The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona (dir. Jo Bonney, Geffen Playhouse). Theatre Fellowships: Drama League NY Directing Fellow, LCT Directors Lab, Directors Lab West.

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Dutt also directs for film and television and has an extensive producing history. She is a graduate of the Media Arts program at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the acting program at William Esper Studio, New York. Most important, Dutt is a city girl with a country soul who creates with a conscience, on and off screen and stage. 

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