As a playwright, awards include runner-up in Royal Court Young Writers' Festival, co-winner of the Peggy Ramsay Award (1998), theatre-wales best new play (2003) and Manchester Evening News best play of 2004. She has received bursaries and awards to artists from the Arts Council Wales and Arts Council England, including a prestigious Creative Wales Award 2008/09.

In London, she has had plays on at the Bush, Royal Court Upstairs, Soho Theatre and Arcola; at Contact, Manchester, Birmingham Rep, Manchester Royal Exchange and the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival. Her work has been produced in Ireland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany (in repertoire at the Maxim Gorki Theatre for two years), Austria, Poland (the Grotowski Centre), Spain, Croatia and Australia. She has had seven plays produced by BBC Radio 3 and 4 and wrote and directed a Screen Gem for Channel 4/Sgrin/British Screen, which has appeared in film festivals worldwide. Her plays are published by faber&faber, Aurora Metro and Oberon books.

Her prose has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. She was a contributor to the 1994 Mind/Allen award winning anthology Mustn't Grumble (Women's Press) and was runner-up in the 1996 Stand International Short Story Competition with mouth . The Meat Man was one of the winners of the Image Irish Short Story Writers of the Year Awards. She is currently writing her first novel.

As a dramaturg and tutor, Kaite has been involved with writernet and Graeae Theatre Company's Mentoring scheme and led their renowned project disPlay4 at Soho Theatre. She has worked as a dramaturg and mentor for many companies, including Birmingham Rep Theatre, Soho Theatre, North West Playwrights, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Hall for Cornwall, North West Disability Arts Forum, Contact Theatre and Script, amongst others. She has been writer-in-residence at Essex University, UCE, and visiting playwright at Korean National University of the Arts. Between 2003-06 she was AHRC Creative Fellow at Exeter University, her research through practice being ‘Alternative Dramaturgies informed by a d/Deaf and Disability Perspective’. She has supervised writing for performance to postgraduate level.




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