Ronita Dutta

Daughter of Bengali immigrants, I was born and bred in North London. I've worked in publishing and digital media all my career and written on a diverse range of subjects from health and beauty to parenting, education, art, psychology and even the weather. 

As well as the usual freelance hustle,  I'm honing my skills as a theatre maker with my beloved friends at Chickenshed who selected my first play How To Be Invisible  to be staged as part of their Changes festival in 2024. It received a positive write-up in The British Theatre Guide. which you can read here.

I've also written and performed as part of the incredible Lost Records project and devised and edited a retro style music magazine  Spin-Off capturing some of the musical memories of the Space Between Us Community.

I'm currently writing a narrative woven in strands telling the story of my mother's move to the UK from Kolkata in the 1960s, my father's brief part in the British Folk Revival and my own second-generation experience and obsession with pop music. I'm doing a part-time course 'Writing From Life' at Birkbeck University to help me with my process and keep me accountable for this new foray into memoir writing. 

My clients have included BBC Studios (Bluey, Hey Duggee & BBC Earth), Chickenshed Theatre, The Times, The University of the Creative Arts, Penguin Books, The Independent, The Weather Channel and the artist Bill Drummond.

I'm open to work so do get in touch if you have a project you wish to discuss or just want to hear more about me and my musings.