**Elizabeth Kuti *is a playwright and lecturer in drama. Her play The Sugar Wife *won the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

**Elizabeth Kuti *is a playwright and lecturer in drama. Her play The Sugar Wife *won the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Her plays include:* Fishskin Trousers (Finborough Theatre, 2013; revived at Park Theatre, London, 2017); The Six-Days World (Finborough Theatre, London, 2007); and The Sugar Wife * (Rough Magic, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2005; Soho Theatre, London, 2006; Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2024).

She teaches drama and playwriting at the University of Essex; and is a long-term collaborator with director Robert Price, with whom she founded Lubkinfinds Theatre.