Kuti was born in
Cheshire,
England and graduated from
Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in English, and completed her MA at
King's College London. She is of partial
Hungarian descent through her paternal grandfather, whose original surname Kipslinger was adapted to 'Kuti' to disguise its
Germanic origins. In 1993 she moved to Ireland to study at
Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote her
doctoral thesis on eighteenth-century women playwrights. In October 2004, she joined the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies,
University of Essex. In 1999, the company
Rough Magic produced her first work for the theatre, the completion of
Frances Sheridan's eighteenth-century comedy
A Trip to Bath, retitled as
The Whisperers. She has performed with most of Ireland's leading theatre companies including the Abbey and Peacock, Rough Magic, Loose Canon, Bedrock and the Corn Exchange. She performed in
Car Show;
Dublin 1742, by
John Banville;
Melonfarmer, by Alex Johnston;
Still, by Rosalind Haslett. She directed
Stone Ghosts, by Sue Mythen. ==Awards==